Sills v. Illinois Central Railroad

This was an attachment suit filed in the Chancery Court of Attala County hy Mrs. Billie Durden Sills, for herself and .as mother and next friend of her three minor *500children, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company and T. M. Rogers to recover for the death of their husband and father on October 24, 1960, which resulted from a crossing collision between a truck, operated by the decedent, and a work train of the defendant Railroad Company, operated by Rogers as the engineer.

In their bill of complaint it was charged that the collision occurred at an extraordinarily dangerous crossing which…