Legal Opinion
Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Bailey
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided October 7, 1943No. 6 Div. 103PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, Justice.
The suit was under the homicide statute. Code 1940, Tit. 7, § 119.
The facts are stated in short that on November 18, 1941, Devoda Bailey, the eighteen year old son of plaintiff, was killed at Springdale Road Crossing in Jefferson County, Alabama, by north bound L. & N. passenger train No. 2 of which R. S. Adams was engineer. The railroad runs north and south and Springdale Road, a hard surface road, crosses it from east to west at right angles, about a mile and a half south of New Castle, and a mile and a half north of Black Creek.
One hundred sixty-five feet west of the…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- McMillan v. AikenSupreme Court of Alabama · 1920
- Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911
- Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. FosheeSupreme Court of Alabama · 1899
- Glass v. Memphis & Charleston RailroadSupreme Court of Alabama · 1891
- Richmond & Danville Railroad v. FreemanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Liberty National Life Insurance Company v. WeldonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1957
- McLaney v. TurnerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1958
- Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. BishopSupreme Court of Alabama · 1956
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Howard WilliamsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- McCullough v. L & N R. CO.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1981
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