Smith v. Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Negligence. Nonsuit. Practice. Bill of exceptions. Before Judge Hines. Johnson superior court. March term, 1889. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff was in the employment of the defendant as a “section-boss.” He had control of a hand-car and of a company of workmen, a force of a dozen men. With himself and all the men on board, he was proceeding, in the line of his duty, upon the car to reach a certain station at which a regular train was to pass him. He was not out of time but was entitled to the track, and had he not been obstructed, could have reached the station by the time the other train was to arrive there. His car was running rapidly by gravity or its own momentum down a descending grade, the…
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