Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Howard's Administrator

MOREMEN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment which awarded to the administrator of the estate of Ray E. Howard the sum of $20,000 for damages resulting, from his death. Howard was killed by a diesel engine freight train which belonged to appellant, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company.

On the morning of August 16, 1954, Howard, who worked for the appellant company and lived in one of its section houses located near and facing the main line of the railroad, left his residence with his wife and went to a nearby grocery store in Baxter. He shopped with his wife and then they separated.…