Illinois Central Railroad v. Pilgrim

ROBERTSON, Justice:

The appellee, Mrs. Louise Pilgrim, Ad-ministratrix of the Estate of Charles Ray Pilgrim, Deceased, recovered a judgment for $55,000 against appellants, Illinois Central Railroad Company and its engineer, Danny John Callahan, in the Circuit Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County, Mississippi.

Charles Ray Pilgrim, the 20-year-old son of appellee, was killed instantly when his automobile was hit by a passenger train of the appellant at a railroad crossing in the Town of Clinton, Mississippi.

The decedent moved'from’Taylorsville .to. Jackson on October 11,'1964,…