Sarman v. Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co.

Mrs. Elizabeth Sarman brought suit against Seaboard Air-Line Railway Company, a corporation, under the Civil Code, § 4424, for the homicide of her thirteen-year-old daughter Margaret. The homicide occurred at a public crossing at White Oak, a village *316in Camden county, when the defendant’s train collided with an automobile driven by a Mr. Prickett, in which the decedent was riding. The specifications of negligence were that the defendant failed to observe the requirements of the “blow-post law,” that the train was being run at an excessive speed, and that the defendant’s engineer and fireman…