Collins v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Eishburne.

The defendant, Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company, owns and operates a branch railroad from its main line at Elrod, N. C., to Myrtle Beach, S. C. This branch line passes through Horry County, in this State, and therein intersects at right angles an unpaved public highway at a point known as Cebu crossing. Thomas A. Anderson and his wife, Sarah D. Anderson, an elderly couple, lived upon their farm approximately two miles east of this crossing.

On December 12, 1933, a short time before noon, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, in a Eord sedan…