Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Howard Williams

RIVES, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Howard Williams, in a suit arising out of a collision between the plaintiff’s automobile and a freight train at a railroad crossing. The collision occurred on April 16, 1962, at about 4 A.M., in rural Marengo County, Alabama, near the City of Thomaston. The freight train traveling in an easterly direction collided with the plaintiff’s car which he was driving in a southerly direction along Alabama Highway No. 25. As a result of the collision, the plaintiff’s wife and his three-year-old daughter were killed, the…