Columbus Greenville R. Co. v. Lee

The appellee’s intestate, "W. B. Pentecost, was one of three guests in a Ford coupe owned and being driven by Julius Steen. The road along which the automobile was traveling crossed the appellant’s railroad, and the automobile, traveling at the rate of twenty-five or thirty miles an hour, reached the crossing at the same time that one of the appellant’s trains was approaching it. Steen drove the car on the railroad track without stopping, and did not see the approaching train until just before the automobile went on the track. He then applied the brake and tried to stop, intending to back off…