Harris v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

This is a suit against a railroad company for damages on account of injuries alleged to have been received in a runaway occasioned by the negligent manner in which the defendant’s ears approached a road-crossing. None of the acts of negligence set forth *836in the petition constitute negligence per se, since the petition fails to show that the road in which the plaintiff was traveling was a public road. On the theory .that the road was a private road, the petition, although it shows that the road-crossing was near the city of Savannah, fails to set forth clearly any facts going to show that the…