Powers v. Norfolk Southern Railroad

This is an action for personal injuries. The plaintiff was struck by a train coming from behind him while on the defendant’s track about 200 yards from Moyock station on the night of 4 February, 1912. There was a crossing at the station about 200 yards south and another about 300 yards north of the place of this occurrence. There was a curve between these crossings, and the plaintiff was at the southern end of it. He had returned from Norfolk on the afternoon train and was drinking but not drunk. It was cold, snowy, and the wind was blowing. The defendant was running its freight train around'…