Winner v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

BARNES, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This negligence action arose out of a collision between a freight train and a truck hauling a lowboy trailer. The train was operated by James Winner and Joe *480Brakefield, who filed complaints1 against Defendants CSX Transportation (CSXT) and Precision Construction Group, Inc. (Precision).2 Precision’s tractor-trailer, driven by its employee Donald Cochran, became stuck on the Jeff Davis Avenue grade crossing in Long Beach, Mississippi, and CSXT’s train struck it. Winner and Brakefield claim that central to the case is whether CSXT had prior notice of problems at…