Shofner v. Illinois Central Railroad

CLAYTON, District Judge.

This is a suit by Emory M. Shofner against Illinois Central Railroad Company by which plaintiff seeks to recover for personal injuries suffered and property damage sustained by him when his automobile collided with a standing freight train of defendant between 2:30 and 3:00 o’clock a. m. on August 1, 1959. This case was tried to the court, sitting without a jury, on complaint and answer.

1) This collision occurred when the weather was clear and warm at a crossing of defendant’s single line of railway and Mississippi Highway No. 1 in the outskirts of Greenville,…