Ward v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

DAVIS, Commissioner.

The trial court gave a directed verdict for the appellee railroad in appellant’s suit seeking damages for personal injury and property loss allegedly sustained when the appellant drove his automobile into a freight car as it was being switched over a crossing on the Pleasant Valley Road about 2 a. m.

The appellant recognizes that there is a long line of cases from this court standing for the general proposition that the presence of a train as it passes over a grade crossing is of itself sufficient warning to an approaching motorist. Some of the cases so holding are…