Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Pidd

STRUM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in a railroad grade crossing case, tried to a jury, with verdict for plaintiff below.

Mrs. W. D. Pidd, a 46 year old housewife for whose death the verdict was returned, was driving a car with her sister as a passenger in the right-hand front seat, along U. S. Highway 441. About one mile east of the town of Oklawaha, in Marion County, Florida, where the highway runs approximately in an easterly-westerly direction, defendant’s tracks cross it diagonally from southeast to northwest, at an angle of about 35 degrees. Decedent was unfamiliar with the crossing,…