Kahn v. Southern Ry. Co.

SOPER, Circuit’Judge.

These are appeals from directed verdicts entered by the District Court at the close of all the evidence in three civil actions consolidated for trial against the Southern Railway Company for damages caused by alleged negligence in blocking a street crossing in Asheville, North Carolina, and thereby delaying the arrival o-f fire apparatus of the city’s Fire Department at a fire in a building owned by Mortimer I. Kahn and leased and occupied by the Kahn -Company, Inc. and Broad River Processing Company, Inc. Several fire insurance companies were made additional parties…