Kenan v. Shirley Black

WHITFIELD, J.:

Essential questions to be determined are the liability of the railroad company receivers, and, if liable, the damages recoverable by a widowed father for the death of his eleven year old daughter who was in her father’s auto truck being driven by his employee within his employment when the truck collided with the railroad company’s train at a surface crossing. If defendants are shown by the evidence to be liable for negligence in operating the train which proximately contributed to the fatal injury, the amount of damages is reasonable compensation, warranted by the evidence, for…