Wickton v. Louisville & N. R.

HOLMES, District Judge.

Plaintiffs’ intestate drove his automobile at a grade crossing in front of a fasNapproaching train of defendant and was killed instantly. Alleging that the injury resulted from the failure of the railroad employees to ling the bell or blow the whistle and otherwise to use due care in operating the train, the heirs of the deceased brought this suit and obtained judgment.

The main facts surrounding the accident were disclosed by witnesses on the trial with reasonable certainty, but with some conflict as to the speed of the train and whether the statutory signals were…