NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. GILLIAM


178 S.E.2d 499 (1971)

211 Va. 542

NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. Naoma B. Godsey GILLIAM. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. Lloyd McDANIEL, Administrator of the Estate of Billy Ray McDaniel, Deceased.

Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.

January 18, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Rosenberger, Jr., Lynchburg, for plaintiff in error.

Paul Whitehead, Lynchburg, for defendants in error.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, CARRICO, GORDON, COCHRAN and HARMAN, JJ.


HARMAN, Justice.

The decedent, Billy Ray McDaniel, an infant over fourteen, and Naoma B. Godsey Gilliam, his great grandmother, were both riding in a 1963 Ford Falcon station wagon that was struck by defendant's freight train July 5, 1965, at the Sixteenth Street grade crossing in the Town of Glasgow, Virginia. Lloyd McDaniel, Administrator of the Estate of Billy Ray McDaniel, brought an action against the Norfolk and Western...

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