Seaboard Coast Line Railroad v. O'Connor

McNULTY, Judge.

The railroad, in this wrongful death action, directly appeals from a final judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiff-appellee, widow of the decedent Thomas Loyd O’Connor. We affirm.

The decedent was killed as a result of a collision between a tractor-semitrailer rig he was driving and one of appellant’s *665freight trains, which was then and there being operated in Polk County, Florida, by employees of appellant. The one point on appeal which merits discussion is whether the trial court erred in excluding evidence that the deceased driver failed to stop at the…