Legal Opinion
Fifth Third Bank Ex Rel. Trust Officer v. CSX Corp. Ex Rel. Board of Commissioners
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 22, 2005No. 04-2780PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
This case arises from a tragic train-car collision that caused serious injuries to the driver of the car and killed her three-and-one-half-year-old daughter, a passenger. The daughter’s estate and her mother and father brought a personal injury and wrongful-death action in Indiana state court, which the defendants — the owner of the railroad crossing, Newton County and its Highway Department, the railroad, and the State of Indiana and its Department of Transportation — removed to federal district court. The suit asserted that railroad warning devices at the crossing were…
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