Simmons v. Atlanta & West Point Railroad

While a railroad company’s agents operating one of its trains are ordinarily not required to anticipate the presence of a child trespasser upon its tracks or property, and the duty of using ordinary care and diligence does not arise until his presence thereon becomes known (A. C. L. R. Co. v. Fulford, 159 Ga. 812, 127 S. E. 274); Southern Ry. Co. v. Chatman, 124 Ga. 1026, 53 S. E. 692, 6 L. R. A. (N. S.) 283, 4 Ann. Cas. 675; N., C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Priest, 117 Ga. 767, 45 S. E. 35; Ashworth v. Southern Ry. Co., 116 Ga. 635, 43 S. E. 36, 59 L. R. A. 592), where, however, children…