Gridley v. Liberty Mutual Ins.

This is a Tennessee Workmen’s Compensation death claim. The decedent, Glenn C. Gridley, Jr., was an employee of Cummins Diesel Sales Corporation of Memphis, and between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. on the morning of July 6, 1959, while driving his car westward on Crump Boulevard toward the Harahan Bridge across the Mississippi River, turned to his right, or north, onto Short Arkansas Street at a time when a local Frisco freight train made up of eight cars and a caboose was moving west over the Arkansas crossing slowly approaching the Frisco Railroad Bridge across the Mississippi River. At the time…