Birmingham Belt R. Co. v. Nelson

This is an action for personal injuries received by the plaintiff in a collision, on a grade crossing, between an automobile operated by the plaintiff and a railroad car constituting a train of eight cars, being handled by a switching crew of the defendant. The collision occurred in the daytime, at the intersection of First avenue and Thirty-Second street in the city of Birmingham. The complaint consists of two counts, the first ascribing the injury to the negligence of the defendant's servants in such sort as to embrace initial simple negligence, as well as negligence after the discovery of…