Dixon v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.

This case is controlled by the decisions of the Supreme Court in Morris v. Georgia Railroad Co., 131 Ga. 475 (62 S. E. 579), and Chattanooga Southern Railroad Co. v. Myers, 112 Ga. 237 (37 S. E. 439). The deceased was a locomotive fireman in the employment of the defendant company. He was traveling in a passenger-coach, having boarded the train at Macon to go to a point west of Americus. When he reached Americus he left the passenger-coach and went forward and got upon the engine. He had no duties to perform on the engine, and there was a rule of the company which prohibited engineers from…