Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Hall Livestock Co.

Deen, Judge.

1. This case involves a grade crossing collision between one of the defendant’s trains and a tractor and wagon belonging to the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s employee testified that he drove the tractor from a field to a road paralleling the track and about 200 yards from the crossing; stopped at a point 162 feet from the crossing, but not hearing the train, and his vision being obscured by tall weeds along the track, he proceeded onto the track where the vehicle was struck by the train. The evidence authorized, although it did not demand, a finding that the defendant was guilty of…