Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Co. v. Owen Steel Co.

ORDER

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

This suit was instituted by the plaintiff Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company, hereafter referred to as Seaboard, to recover property damages resulting from a collision which occurred on December 7, 1970, between plaintiff’s trains and defendant’s tractor-trailer trucks, at the intersection of the plaintiff’s railroad with South Beltline Boulevard near but outside the city limits of Columbia, South Carolina. Defendant, hereafter referred to as Owen, filed a general denial and a counterclaim seeking recovery for property damages to its tractor-trailer and steel.…