Legal Opinion
Glass v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 31, 1972No. 71-2136PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
This case is before us on consolidated appeals from a jury trial in a diversity case where verdicts of $65,000 were returned for each of two plaintiffs representing the estates of a deceased automobile driver and his passenger who were killed in a railroad crossing accident. The suits were brought under the Alabama Homicide Act, Title 7, § 123, Alabama Code of 1940.
At the accident site, two parallel railroad tracks are crossed by a two-lane paved highway in the community of Pel-ham, Alabama. The accident occurred at 11:30 A.M. on a Sunday, April 13, 1969. The crossing was protected by…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Ruth C. Krizak and John M. Krizak v. W. C. Brooks & Sons, IncorporatedCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1963
- Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. BrackinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1946
- William B. Schultz, and Cross-Appellant v. Tecumseh Products, a Corporation, and Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1962
- Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. JohnstonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1967
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