Hampton v. . Hawkins

The plaintiff’s intestate came to bis death as the result of a collision between a motor truck in which he was riding and one of defendant’s freight trains on the Norfolk Southern Railroad. The motor truck was the property of plaintiff’s intestate and was being driven for him at the time by his employee.

As there was evidence of negligence on the part of defendants in failing to give timely warning of the approach of the train to a grade crossing, it would seem that the only ground upon which judgment of nonsuit could be predicated was that plaintiff’s evidence conclusively established…