Southern Railway Co. v. Alexander

Nelle Alexander, by her next friend, brought suit for damages for personal injuries against Southern Bailway Company, EL M. Hammett, and John Mann. The petition alleged joint and concurrent negligence on the part of the defendants, causing damage to the plaintiff in the sum of $25,000; that in the afternoon, of June 6, 1937, the plaintiff was driving an automobile along a public highway where it crossed a track of the railway compahy, and was run over at the crossing by a train of the railway company which was being operated by Hammett, the engineer, and Mann, the fireman; that approaching…