Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Byrd
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Byrd
Opinion of the Court
A statement of the facts of this case and a discussion of the applicable law will be found in our former opinion, in which we reversed a judgment for the defendant below. Byrd v. Atlantic Coast Line, 2 F.(2d) 672. We then held that the learned judge below should not have instruet'ed a verdict in favor of the defendant. We thought that whether the plaintiff’s decedent was guilty of the gross or willful negligence-necessary, under the somewhat peculiar statute of South Carolina, to defeat recovery,, depended upon whether he knew the defendant maintained and operated a second main-track over the crossing at which he was killed, and we found upon the evidence presented that whether he did or did not raised a jury-question.
Affirmed.
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