Jones v. Atlanta-Charlotte Air Line R. Co.

StuicES, Justice.

This appeal is from verdict and judgment for $5,000.00 actual damages for wrongful death. Sections 411, 412, Code of 1942. The twenty-nine year old deceased was an unmarried son of a widowed mother with younger children -in whose support he aided by his earnings as a truck driver. He left his mother’s home late on the Sunday afternoon of March 7, 1948, and was struck and killed by a fast passenger train at a little after eleven o’clock that night. The accident occurred in a populated and partly industrial area just south of the city of Greenville. There was evidence that he…