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CRAIGHEAD v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RY. CO.

No. 22946.

475 S.E.2d 363 (1996)

197 W.Va. 271

Jeanette CRAIGHEAD, as Administratrix of the Estate of Steven S. Craighead, Plaintiff Below, Appellee, v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, a Corporation, and B.R. Turner, Defendants Below, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided July 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wade T. Watson, Brumfield and Watson, Bluefield, for Appellants.

J. Franklin Long, Katherine L. Dooley, Bluefield, for Appellee.

ALBRIGHT, Justice:

Appellants, Norfolk and Western Railway Company and B.R. Turner (defendants below), appeal a $657,100.50 judgment entered against them by the Circuit Court of McDowell County in a wrongful death action that arose after Steven Craighead was struck and killed by a Norfolk and Western train. Appellants contend that the circuit court erred by giving instructions that (1) permitted the jury to apply a duty...

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