Southern Railway Co. v. Berry

Under review is a crossing accident in which plaintiff’s decedent was killed. Her contention is that the defendant was negligent in that it failed to give the statutory crossing signals of approach, and that this failure was a proximate *269cause of her husband’s death. She has recovered a verdict and judgment.

The conditions at this crossing are shown by a survey and blueprint. The railroad runs substantially north and south, with a two-degree curve to the right going north. The highway runs east and west and is an ordinary county dirt road.

This crossing, known in the record as the Mission…