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Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. Morrison

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 29, 1967No. 6 Div. 49PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*313COLEMAN, Justice.

Defendants, The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company, (AGS), and its engineer, Fox, appeal from a judgment for $60,000.00 rendered on a verdict for the plaintiff in action for wrongful death of plaintiff’s intestate who was killed when an automobile, in which intestate was riding as a passenger, collided with a train of AGS at a grade crossing within but near the corporate limits of the City of Birmingham at approximately 6:50 a. m. on January 20, 1961. The driver of the automobile was also killed.

The railroad will be regarded in this discussion as perpendicular to the…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. TurnipseedSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
  2. Bailey v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
  3. Western & Atlantic Railroad v. HendersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
  4. McFarland v. American Sugar Refining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1916
  5. Manley v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1929

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Maring-Crawford Motor Co. v. SmithSupreme Court of Alabama · 1970
  2. Ellison v. EllisonCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1972
  3. City of Birmingham v. KellyCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1974
  4. Independent Life Accident Ins. Co. v. McGeheeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1969
  5. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1976

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