Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Watkins

Jennie M. Watkins brought her action against the Atlantic Coast Line Eailroad Company for damages for the wrongful death of her husband caused by running a train upon an automobile which the deceased was driving over a railroad crossing at a place called Seffner in Hills-borough County.

The declaration alleged that Watkins was driving his automobile along the public highway in the town of Seffner about 7:55 o’clock on the morning of March 31, 1926; that at the point where the public highway crosses the tracks of the railroad company the defendant carelessly and negli*354gently propelled and ran…