Tennessee Cent. Ry. Co. v. Page

W. S. Page’s automobile was struck by the train of the Tennessee Central Railway Company on the Gay street crossing over the railroad track within the corporate limits of Lebanon, and within a mile of the depot, Action for damages resulted in a verdict for Page upon issues submitted under the second count of the declaration, based on the railway’s failure to observe subsection 3, section 1574, of Shannon’s Code.

The company insisted in the trial court and in the court of appeals that its employees on the locomotive observed the statute, and further insisted that assuming the nonobservance of…