Concordia Baking Co. v. Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. Co.

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment rejecting its demands for damages to a motor truck owned by plaintiff, resulting from a collision between the truck and one of defendant’s trains which occurred after dark at a point where the railroad track crosses one of the streets in the town of Vidalia.

The plaintiff alleged that the train was being backed over the crossing which was unguarded and poorly lighted, and that there was not any light on the train, nor a lookout maintained, and that the train approached and entered upon the crossing without any warning signals.

The defendant denied the…