Wright v. Southern Railroad

Tlie plaintiff’s intestate was killed in a railroad wreck. Sixty feet west of a cutting, at a curve, wheel prints on the cross-ties showed that a derailment had begun. Three hundred feet further on, according to one- witness, and seven hundred to one thousand feet, according to another, the cars rolled down a high embankment, "and the intestate, who was in the car next to the tender, was so injured that he died. The freight train, on which he was the sole brakeman, was running 18 miles an hour, and down grade. There were nine cars, besides caboose, engine, and tender. Eight cars rolled down…