Sanders v. Florida East Coast Railway Co.

MELVIN, WOODROW M., Associate Judge.

We review the timely appeal by plaintiff, Denver Elmo Sanders, from a final judgment entered in the Circuit Court of Brev-ard County, Florida, upon a jury verdict in favor of the defendants, Florida East Coast Railway Company and its engineer, Thomas Rufus Broom. A highway-railway crossing was the scene of the events that is the subject matter of the controversy existing between the parties involved, who will be referred to here in the same position occupied by each in the trial court.

Denver Elmo Sanders was driving an 18-gear Mack tandem truck, the…