SLAY v. ILLINOIS CENT. GULF R. CO.

No. 56521.

511 So.2d 875 (1987)

Mrs. Donnis SLAY, Individually, and as Administratrix of the Estate of Micheal Stuart Bell, Deceased v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF RAILROAD CO. and S.I. Price.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied September 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jim Kitchens, Constance Johnson, Kitchens & Pickard, Hazlehurst, for appellant.

Richard E. Stratton, III, Daniel H. Fairly, Stratton & Fairly, Brookhaven, for appellees.

Before HAWKINS, P.J., and PRATHER and GRIFFIN, JJ.


GRIFFIN, Justice, for the Court:

This case, involving a railroad crossing accident, comes to the Court from the Circuit Court of Lincoln County, where a jury returned a verdict for the defendants, Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Co., the train's operator, and S.I. Price, its engineer. Though sympathetic to the plaintiff, Mrs. Donnis Slay, for her son's death, we affirm.

On February 28, 1984, at 9:00 A.M., while sleeting and snowing, eighteen-year-old Micheal...

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