Underwood v. Illinois Cent. R. Co

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

The railroad crossing accident in which the appellants were injured occurred at about 8:30 o’clock on the night of April 11, 1950, at what is known as the Selma crossing on U. S. Plighway 61, about eight miles north of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. Just prior to the collision, the automobile driven by Murray, and in which Underwood was a passenger, was traveling in a southerly direction and the train had been traveling in a northerly direction. The extent of the traffic on the part of the railroad between Natchez and Harriston, a town about twenty-eight miles further…