Morris v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Hatcher, Judge :

The plaintiff recovered $10,000.00 damages in the circuit court, for the death of her decedent. He was killed by a passenger train of the defendant on the night of December 24, 1926, at a country road crossing, while riding in a Ford coupe owned and driven by his daughter Margaret, aged 19. The road and the railroad intersect at right angles. The road is straight in the direction from which the coupe came for a distance of 500 feet from the crossing, and the track for a distance of over 3000 feet in the direction from which the train came. The land between is comparatively…