Legal Opinion

Southern Ry. Co. v. Lambert

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided March 21, 1935No. 6 Div. 704PublishedCited by 34 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BOULDIN, Justice.

Action for personal injuries to a passenger in a motor vehicle caused by collision with a railway flat ear at a grade crossing.

The place of the accident was at the crossing of Southern Railway tracks over Twenty-Fourth street in the city of Birmingham. It was at night A railway freight train with some 44 cars was moving in regular course over the track. It came to a stop, as required by statute, on reaching the crossing of the Southern Railway track and that of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.

While making the usual observations to see that the Louisville & Nashville track…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. GuthrieSupreme Court of Alabama · 1927
  2. Philadelphia & Reading Railroad v. DillonSupreme Court of Delaware · 1921
  3. Weston v. . R. R.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1927
  4. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. v. HussIndiana Court of Appeals · 1932
  5. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. GillespieIndiana Court of Appeals · 1930

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3Cited by34 opinions

  1. Peri v. L.A. Junction Ry.California Supreme Court · 1943
  2. Pollard v. RogersSupreme Court of Alabama · 1937
  3. Westbrook v. GibbsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1970
  4. Jarvella v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1935
  5. Ridgeway v. CSX Transp., Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1998

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