Medlin v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY

Plaintiff’s evidence tends to show these facts:

Rural Road 1008 crosses the track of the defendant Railroad at grade in the hamlet of Indian Trail at Benton’s Store. About 7:30 p.m. on March 31, 1961, two automobiles traveling south on Highway No. 1008 approached this crossing. There was a heavy drizzle and visibility was poor. The first car was operated by Reginald Gaddy, aged nineteen; the second, close behind the first, was driven by plaintiff’s intestate, Brenda Ford, aged sixteen. The decedent was a high school student on her way to a dance at the school gymnasium. She had lived in the…