Southern Railway Co. v. Davis

*551On the afternoon of May 7, 1921, Julius A. Davis, while driving a Ford truck, was killed on the grade crossing of the Southern Railway Company, at Clifton station, by a passenger train of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. His administrator sued both companies, and the trial resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $3,000.00, of which the defendants are here complaining.

As the location of the crossing is in the incorporated town of Clifton, it is conceded that Code, sections 3958, requiring specific signals from railway locomotives on approaching highway crossings, and…