Claughton v. Atlantic Coast Line R.

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by the appellant against the appellee for damages for the wrongful death of the former’s husband caused by a train of the appellee colliding with an automobile which the deceased was driving over appellee’s railroad track where it crossed Park boulevard, a public highway, in the town Pinellas Park, in the state of Florida. There was evidence tending to prove the following: While the deceased was driving west on the highway, which runs east and west, a train traveling very rapidly on the railroad track, which runs northeast and southwest with respeet to…