Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Lamphear

Guy W. Lamphear obtained a judgment for $1500.00 damages for loss of services and of the society and comfort of his wife who was fatally injured at a grade crossing in the city of Clearwater, Florida, it being alleged that the defendant railroad company “carelessly and negligently propelled and ran its train against and upon the automobile in which the” plaintiff’s wife “was .driving.” It is also alleged in the separate counts that the train was then being propelled at an excessive rate of speed, at a speed in excess of that fixed by a city ordinance and that the defendant then and there…