Renfro v. Fox

GEORGE O. BERTRAM, Special Commissioner.

On a clear day in August 1962 at about the hour of 3:30 p. m. appellant Joseph Dale Renfro backed his father’s pickup truck downhill and stopped, with the tailgate within four feet of the nearest rail of a private crossing of appellee L. & N. Railroad Company located in Knox County near Flat Lick. His testimony is that he looked both up and down the track but did not see or hear appellee’s train coming from the north. Joseph said he could see north, the direction from which the train was coming, for a distance of 135 feet. He proceeded to back across…