Gilkerson v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

Haymond, Judge:

On the night of January 7, 1944, between the hours of eleven o’clock and twelve o’clock, midnight, Virgil Ray Gilkerson, a youth fifteen years of age, while riding as a guest with other companions in a automobile driven by Orville Hall, was killed in a collision between the automobile and a passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company at a grade crossing in the western section of the City of Huntington, which is located in Wayne County, West Virginia. This action was instituted by the plaintiff, Henry A. Gilkerson, the father of the deceased, as administrator of…