Crine v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Negligence. Passengers. Charge of court. Before Judge Atkinson. Appling superior court. March term, 1889. Crine sued the railway company for damages, for personal injuries sustained by him while a passenger on one of its trains.
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Railroads. Negligence. Passengers. Charge of court. Before Judge Atkinson. Appling superior court. March term, 1889. Crine sued the railway company for damages, for personal injuries sustained by him while a passenger on one of its trains. His evidence tended to show that the train on which he was hurt was a freight-train of defendant, which he boarded, on January 4th, 1887, at Baxley about half past four o’clock in the afternoon to go to Lumber City, to which city he paid his fare. After dark, about five o’clock, at Prentiss, a station between Baxley and Lumber City, there were various…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
A verdict having been rendered in this case in favor of the defendant in error, the plaintiff in error moved for a new trial upon several grounds, alleging as error certain charges of the court, which are set forth in the official report of this case, the substance of the same being that the court erred in instructing the jury as fol*657lows: A man who voluntarily takes passage upon a train which is not a passenger-train, but only an ordinary freight-train, is only entitled to look for such security as that mode of conveyance is reasonably expected to render. In that case, if…
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