Mary E. Hales, a Minor, by and Through Her Father and Next Friend, Bobby J. Williams v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a Mississippi diversity judgment rendered for appellee Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (“Illinois Central”), after a nonjury trial, dismissing a suit against it by appellant Mary E. Hales (“Hales”) for personal injuries and property damage sustained as a result of a collision between Hales’ car and one of Illinois Central’s freight trains at a crossing just inside the corporate limits of Flowood, Rankin County, Mississippi. The principal question on appeal is whether, by reason of the limited view Hales had of the approaching train as she drove…