Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Pierce
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Norwood. City court of Savannah. January 16, 1904.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, P. J.
Mary Pierce sued the Seaboard Air-Line Railway for damages for the homicide of her husband. The allegations of her petition, material to the questions made by the record now before us, were, in brief: that her husband, while in the employment of the defendant as a' locomotive engineer, was, on a given date, running an engine of a passenger-train over the defendant’s road, at the rapid rate of speed demanded by the schedule of such train; that the engine, when it reached a switch at a designated place on the road, became derailed and was overturned, and petitioner's husband was pinned beneath…
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