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BURLINGTON NORTHERN R. CO. v. WHITT

88-376.

575 So.2d 1011 (1990)

BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY and R.H. Shalhoop v. Joan Fay WHITT, as administratrix of the Estate of William Charles Whitt, deceased.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 9, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Sharp, Mac B. Greaves and Joel A. Williams of Sadler, Sullivan, Herring & Sharp, Birmingham, and Morris W. Savage of Bankhead & Savage, Jasper, for appellants.

David Cromwell Johnson and Leila Hirayama of Johnson & Cory, Birmingham, Garve Ivey, Jr. of Wilson & King, Jasper, and Charles W. Gamble, Tuscaloosa, for appellee.

Broox G. Holmes and Grover E. Asmus II of Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, for amicus curiae Business Council of Alabama.

SHORES, Justice.

This appeal involves the grade-crossing collision near Townley, Alabama, of a railroad train operated by Burlington Northern Railroad Company, and a tractor-trailer truck driven by William Whitt, who was killed in the accident. Burlington Northern sued Ligon Nationwide, Inc. ("Ligon"), as Mr. Whitt's employer, and Joan Faye Whitt, as administratrix of the estate of William Charles Whitt, on October 25,...

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