Douglas & Co. v. East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co.

Judgment affirmed.

Dean & Smith, for plaintiffs. Dorsey, Brewster & Howell, Wright & Harris and McCutchen & Shumate, for defendant.

Action for damages, the declaration alleging that while the plaintiffs’ horse (a gentle horse, not afraid of trains) was being driven along a road and at a public crossing of the railroad, the driver came in contact with the defendant’s train; and that the employees of defendant failed to blow the whistle or check the train as the statute required at public crossings, and thereby caused a collision between the horse and buggy and the train. To the grant of a…