Southern Railway Company v. Edmunds

Appeal by defendant, Southern Railway Company, from a judgment rendered in accord with a verdict in favor of plaintiff, C. E. Edmunds, and also from a judgment overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial. The suit was brought to recover damages resulting from the collision of plaintiff’s truck with defendant’s train at a public road crossing in the town of Parrish, Alabama.

The principal question before us is whether a part of § 170, Tit. 48, Code of Alabama 1940, places an undue burden on interstate commerce contrary to Article I, *249§ 8, of the United States Constitution. Section 170 provides…