Case ID: fla_88/html/0499-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam. Taylor, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v, M. E. Savage, Defendant in Error.
    
    En Banc.
    Opinion Filed December 20, 1924.
    A Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Okaloosa County; A. G. Campbell, Judge.
    
      HeGeachy & Lewis, for Plaintiff in Error.
    
      Kehoe & Adams, for Defendant in Error.
   Per Curiam.

Damages in $450.00 were awarded for injury to an automobile on a railroad grade crossing. The declaration alleges negligence in not maintaining a safe crossing, but the record discloses that the condition of the automobile and the negligence of the party running it contributed largely and proximately to the injury. Under such circumstances, the judgment is excessive, in. that the damages were not reduced in proportion to the negligence of the driver. The plaintiff may remit $250.00, or the judgment will stand reversed for a new trial.

It is so ordered.

Whitfield, Ellis, Browne, West and Terrell, J. J., concur.

Taylor, C. J.,

dissents: Because in my view there is no evidence whatever showing any negligence on the part of the defendant railroad company, but negligence was solely on the part of the plaintiff.