L. & N. R. R. v. Eckman

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

— Affirming.

This is an appeal from a,judgment entered in the court below upon a verdict awarding appellee $290, for injuries to his person and the wrecking of his automobile by one of appellant’s trains, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of appellant’s servants. Appellant’s only contention is that its negligence was not the proximate cause of the injuries sustained by appellee, or his automobile, but that they resulted solely from his own negligence, and that the trial court erred in refusing to peremptorily instruct the jury to find for…