Geraldine Gilbert Dean, Administratrix of the Estate of Oscar Lee Dean, Deceased v. Southern Railway Company and Anthony Raines

DARR, Senior District Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for $18,000 entered on the verdict of a jury against Southern Railway Company and its engineer, Anthony Raines, for the alleged negligent death of Oscar Lee Dean as a result of a collision between Mr. Dean’s truck and a train of defendant company at a public highway crossing in a rural area in Lee County, Virginia. The public highway is known as U. S. Highway 23. The parties will be hereinafter referred to as plaintiff and defendants as they stood in the trial court unless otherwise indicated.

Plaintiff’s intestate, her husband, Mr.…