Legal Opinion
First Security Bank, Administrator of the Estate of Sharon E. Johnston v. Union Pacific Railroad Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 14, 1998No. 97-4114PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
First Security Bank, acting as administrator of the estate of Sharon E. Johnston, appeals from the judgment entered by the district court 2 following a jury verdict in favor of the defendant, Union Pacific Railroad Co. We affirm.
I
Ms. Johnston, a 36-year-old registered nurse, lived in Kensett, Arkansas, a small town approximately fifty miles northeast of Little Rock. Union Pacific controls two primary sets of tracks that run north and south through Kensett. Four railroad grade crossings, approximately one block apart from each other, are located in the nucleus of the…
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