Hines v. Hoover
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia. Action at law by Sarah Ann Hoover against Walker D. Hines, Di- rector General of Railroads, operating the Atlantic Coast Eine Railway. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BRYAN, Circuit Judge.
This suit was brought by defendant in error, herein called plaintiff, against the Director General of Railroads, to recover damages for the death of her husband.
Plaintiff’s decedent was killed by a passenger train of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company at Drakie’s road crossing in the village of Monteith, Ga. The railroad extends in a north and south line through this village. About 375 feet south of the Drakie road cross*646ing, a public highway 20 feet in width, called the Augusta road, crosses the railroad obliquely, and bears away from it north of the public crossing…
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