Jones v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

ALLEN, Chief Judge.

The appellant as plaintiff in the lower court brought an action against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and H. D. Anderson (engineer of the train) for damages resulting from the death of her husband caused by his automobile being struck by a train at the intersection of Cypress Street with the railroad in Arcadia on December 31, 1957. Mr. Jones, the decedent, was driving west on Cypress Street, which runs east and west, and the train was proceeding south. The complaint alleged that the railroad employees negligently operated the train at a speed in excess of twenty…