Lord v. Southern Railway Company

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The plaintiff himself testified that he saw the train approaching some two or three hundred yards south of the crossing immediately before he drove onto the crossing; that he thought he had time to get across the crossing, and that he would have gotten across, had not his automobile stalled on the crossing; that the ground cable of his automobile caused it to stall; and that it gave him trouble the night before the accident. He testified in part: “I stopped for the crossing and thought I could make it across. I had put it in gear to catch it up and go on…