Legal Opinion

Baston v. Georgia Railroad

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 15, 1878PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Railroads. Presumptions. Negligence. Before Judge Gibson. Columbia Superior Court. March Term, 1877. Reported in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Jackson, Judge.

The single question made by this record arises upon a demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration, which demurrer was sustained and the action dismissed.

The declaration was to the effect that the plaintiff was upon defendant’s line of railway by its consent, walking on the track at a certain point, about nine o’clock at night, when defendant’s train of freight cars came behind him in the dark ; that he stepped some six or seven feet from the track on one side, far enough ordinarily to be secure from danger from the running of the train, but was prevented from getting still further…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. NeelySupreme Court of Georgia · 1876

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Central Railroad v. BrinsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1883
  2. Tift v. JonesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1887
  3. Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1920
  4. Central Railroad v. BrinsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1883

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