Court Opinion

ID: 9665680
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:54:42.381321+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:17.724883
License: Public Domain

HAMLIN, Justice
(dissenting).
I am compelled to agree with the Court of Appeal that in view of the blind crossing the overspeeding by the employees of the Railroad Company was negligence, which was a proximate cause of the accident.
It is my opinion that this train (approxi-. inately on mile long, made up of one hundred and thirteen cars and four diesels) should not have entered the Town of Vinton at thirty-seven miles per hour, its speed at the time of the accident. Notwithstanding the rules of the Railroad Company that its speed in Vinton should not have exceeded twenty-five miles per hour, even this speed, under the circumstances found by the Court of Appeal, would be excessive.
I respectfully dissent.