Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. Co. v. Smith

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

The Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company brings this appeal from a judgment recovered by Leroy Smith, plaintiff, as damages for personal injuries received in a crossing collision. The accident which gave rise to this suit occurred on a clear day in mid-afternoon of September 17, 1941, when the motor truck which plaintiff was driving, a semi-trailer unit heavily loaded with logs, collided with defendant’s southbound freight train at a public crossing about 690 feet south of defendant’s depot in Patmos, Arkansas.

Defendant’s track runs north and south through the town of…