Williford v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

We have examined all of the testimony in this case, and our conclusion is that the true story of the intestate’s tragic end has been told by plaintiff’s witness Adams in a single pregnant sentence, “He just walked down and got too close to the track, and the train struck him.” This is, indeed, the plain significance of what all the witnesses said about it.

The defendant was under no duty to place and maintain a guard rail or other warning device in front of its track at the Dothan station, nor was it under any duty to regulate and restrict the width of the pilot beams of its locomotives so as…