Legal Opinion

Fleming v. Missouri & Arkansas Railway Co.

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided May 15, 1939No. 4-5482PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtGtrieein Smith, C. J.

We adopt appellant’s statement of the case, as follows :

“This appeal is from a directed verdict for the defendant in a suit brought by the administratrix of the estate óf Carl Allen Fleming.
“The deceased was killed on the night of. October 9, 1935, at approximately 11:30, due to a collision between the automobile he was driving and a train of freight cars belonging to the Missouri and Arkansas Railroad Company, appellee, which had blocked the crossing where highway No. 70 intersects the railway a short distance west of the town of Wheatly in Monroe county, Arkansas. There is a curve in the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. FerrellSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1907
  2. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. SullivanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1937
  3. Gillenwater v. Baldwin, Tr. Mo. Pac. R.R.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1936
  4. The Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. BriggsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1936

3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Hawkins v. Missouri Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1950
  2. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. JacksonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1967
  3. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. FarrellSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1967
  4. Brown v. Missouri Pacific RailroadCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1983
  5. Mary Ellen Scoville, Administratrix of the Estate of Thomas W. Scoville, Jr., Deceased v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, Robert King, Administrator of the Estate of Angela King, Deceased v. Missouri Pacific Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1972

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