Seaboard Air Line Railroad v. Gill

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The principal question in this case which we considered on a prior appeal, Gill v. Seaboard Air Line R. Co., 208 F. 2d 7, is whether certain releases given to the Railroad Company by the Administrator were secured by fraud. Three persons were killed when an automobile truck in which they were riding was struck by a Seaboard passenger train on January 16, 1951 at a grade crossing near Henderson, North Carolina. They were respectively the son, the daughter-in-law and one of the ten grandchildren of Tom Gill, an illiterate farmer unable to read, who lived nearby. He attended…