Gule, M. N.R. Co. v. Wood

Appellee’s decedent was the engineer in charge, as such employee, of an interstate southbound freight train of appellant on August 15, 1927. This freight train reached the station called Westport, in the state of Tennessee, at about 4:59 or five o’clock P. M. A northbound passenger train was due at this station at 5:07, and to depart therefrom at 5:08, The passenger train was, of course, superior in right to the freight train, and it was the duty of the engineer of the freight train, under the rules, to take -the siding at the nearest or north entrance thereto as he arrived at the passing…