Legal Opinion
Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Ford
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 9, 1933No. 194PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sutherland
This is an action brought by appellee in a South Carolina state court of first instance against the railroad company and its engineer to recover for injuries said to have been sustained by her as the result of a collision at a public highway crossing between an automobile in which she was riding and a passenger train of the company. The complaint alleges several grounds of negligence, but the only one necessary for our consideration is that appellants negligently failed to give the crossing signals provided for by the state law.
By § 4903, Vol. 3 of the Code of South Carolina (1922), a…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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