Southern Railway Company, a Corporation v. Frank J. Madden

PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by a railroad company from a judgment for damages in a personal injury action instituted by a. plaintiff who claims to have been injured at the 16th Street crossing, of defend? ant’s railroad yard in the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, by cars which he claims were negligently backed without signal or warning. The railroad denies the negligence alleged and contends that plaintiff’s injuries resulted from his having crawled, while drunk, under cars standing above the crossing which were moved without reason on the part of its employees to apprehend that…