Slaton v. Southern Railway Co.

1. Upon the trial of a suit against a railroad company for damages because of the homicide of the plaintiff’s husband, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in operating one of its trains over a railroad-crossing which was a private way maintained by the defendant for a number of years, and which had been in constant and uninterrupted use by the people of the community in crossing the railroad, which facts were known to the defendant, which should have anticipated that persons would be on its track at that point, it being further alleged that the defendant was…