Cox v. Early

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

There was a collision in the nighttime between the automobile operated by the plaintiff’s intestate and a Rock Island switch engine on a crossing in the city of Little Rock, and the plaintiff, living in Arkansas, sued the railroad company and its resident hostler engineer jointly in the state court for the resultant death of her husband, setting up that her husband stopped, looked, and listened and was careful, but the engine speeded on to the crossing without bells, lights, whistles, or lookout. The nonresident railroad company removed to the federal court, claiming…