Gulf, M. N.R. Co. v. Addkison

About a mile and a half north of the City of Louisville, in Winston County, there is a spur track of appellant railroad company which leads in a northeasterly direction from the main line, and across State Highway No. 15. The main line of the railroad and the state highway are about 125 feet apart at this point, the highway being paved. About 200 feet south of the crossing, there is the crest of a hill in the state highway which prevents a traveler going north from seeing the crossing or cars thereon until the top or nearly the top of this hill has been reached.

Shortly after nine o ’clock on…