Legal Opinion

Kilhullen v. Kansas City Southern Railway

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided February 26, 2009No. 2006-CT-01564-SCTPublishedCited by 72 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI

RANDOLPH, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. Following a fatal collision at a railroad crossing between the tractor-trailer driven by Thomas D. Kilhullen (“Thomas”) and a train owned by Kansas City Southern Railway Company (“Kansas City Southern”), Thomas’s widow, Gigi Kilhul-len (“Kilhullen”), filed a wrongful-death suit against Kansas City Southern and the train’s engineer, Robert W. Lay, in the Circuit Court of Scott County, Mississippi. Thereafter, Kansas City Southern and Lay moved for summary judgment, which was granted by the circuit court. The Mississippi Court of…

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