Coley v. . R. R.

Action to recover damages for alleged personal injury.

The plaintiff, a man about 41 years of age, a blacksmith by trade, was injured on the morning of 7 March, 1937, at the Main Street crossing in the town of Lucama, Wilson County, North Carolina, when struck by a northbound passenger train of defendant, known as a through train, which was not scheduled to stop there. Through the said town the defendant's railway, as a part of its main line from Richmond, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, to Jacksonville, in the State of Florida, consists of two tracks, upon one of which its trains going south…