Tennessee Cent. Ry. Co. v. Dunn

This is an action by the administrator against the Railway Company to recover $20,000 damages for the negligent killing of the plaintiff’s intestate, Nora Mai Dunn, caused by a collision, at a street crossing over the railroad track, in the town of Lebanon, between one of the defendant’s trains and an automobile in which Mrs. Dunn was riding.

The declaration contained five counts, but the third count was stricken on demurrer. The first count was based on averments of common-law negligence as follows: That the defendant Railway Company was operating its train at a dangerous rate of speed,…