Jackson v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

Lively, Judge:

Rose Mary Fields was injured and Josephine Jackson, Terrence B. Jackson, Jr., Clarence W. Jackson and Annie Perkins were killed on October 28,1928, on a railroad crossing in the city of Montgomery by westbound Chesapeake & Ohio train No. 101. Actions were instituted by the injured woman and by the respective administrators of the deceaseds’ estates, which cases were, by consent of the litigants, consolidated. The lower court set aside jury awards of $7,500 for injuries sustained by plaintiff Fields and $5,000 for each death and awarded a new trial, and plaintiffs prosecute error…