SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. HILL

No. 70-570.

250 So.2d 311 (1971)

SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Carolyn HILL, As Widow of Lester George Hill, Jr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied July 28, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manley P. Caldwell and Arthur E. Barrow of Caldwell, Pacetti, Barrow & Salisbury, Palm Beach, for appellant.

William S. Frates, II, of Beverly & Frates, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


REED, Judge.

On 8 April 1968 the plaintiff, as widow of the late Lester George Hill, Jr., filed a wrongful death action against the defendant Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company alleging that the defendant had so negligently operated a train through a highway crossing in the City of Clewiston, Florida, as to cause the vehicle operated by the plaintiff's deceased husband to run into and collide with the train. The defendant...

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