Seaboard Coast Line Railroad v. Sheffield

Hall, Presiding Judge.

In action for personal injury and property damage, the defendant railroad appeals from the judgment and from the denial of its motion for judgment n.o.v.

The facts of this case are virtually undisputed. Plaintiff drove his automobile into the 30th car of a freight train as it was moving through a grade crossing at about midnight. The road at this point is perfectly straight and level with nothing to obstruct a clear view of the line. There are standard railroad cross-buck signs on the right hand approaches. Plaintiff testified: that he had traveled this road on the…