Southern Railway Co. v. Campbell

The Southern Railway Company is not satisfied with a verdict sanctioned by the trial court through which liability against it was established in favor of Lewis S. Campbell who was the plaintiff in the court below. The action arose out of a collision between a train of the railway company and a truck owned by Campbell and operated by Walter Dale under the owner’s personal direction and in his presence.

The Southern Railway Company maintains a single track through the town of South Boston. It is crossed at grade at right angles by Main street which is also State Highway number 501. The highway…