Chattahoochee Valley Railway Company v. Williams

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal by defendant from an adverse verdict and judgment in a suit at law for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff as the result of the collision of a boxcar of defendant with plaintiff’s automobile, which he was driving, at a public railroad crossing at Fairfax, in Chambers County. Defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled.

The accident occurred after dark tin a spur track which leads from the main line of defendant’s railroad to the Fairfax Mill. It was .raining.

Plaintiff testified that he approached the crossing, in his car, behind a taxicab which slowed…