Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Miller
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroad employee. Constitutional law. Evidence. Pleading. Negligence. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Rockdale superior court. March, term, 1892. Miller sued the railroad company for damages from personal injuries.
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Railroad employee. Constitutional law. Evidence. Pleading. Negligence. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Rockdale superior court. March, term, 1892. Miller sued the railroad company for damages from personal injuries. He alleged, in brief, that he was a train-hand of defendant running on a freight-train, it being his duty to couple and uncouple cars and do any and all other acts connected with the train, and the running and operating thereof, which he was ordered to do by his co-employee and superior officer, the conductor who had charge of the train. Near midnight at the Conyers depot of…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
The plaintiff in the court below obtained a verdict for $2,000 against the railroad company on account of an injury to his hand, alleged to have been sustained while in the discharge of his duty as an employee of the defendant, without fault or negligence on his part, and by reason of the fault and negligence of other employees of the defendant in putting him in a dangerous position and giving him no warning of the danger. A new trial was refused, and the defendant excepted.
1. It was complained that the court erred in declining to charge as requested, that “if the…
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