Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co. v. Williams' Adm'x

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammack

Reversing.

Powell Williams was killed by one of the appellant’s trains near West Van Lear, in Johnson County. He was struck at a point some 400 or 500 feet south of a public crossing and approximately 175 feet north of a private crossing. There were no eyewitnesses to the accident. Mrs. Williams testified she saw the train, which consisted of an engine and one coach, approaching from the direction of the public crossing; “it was coming so rapidly and so fast and made so much noise;” no signals were sounded; and shortly after it passed out of her view and…