Hix v. Southern Railway Co.

J. R. Hix sued Southern Railway Company to recover damages in the sum of $12,000, on account of the loss of services of his minor son, Robert, who was born on July 18, 1918, alleging in the first count of his petition that on July 22, 1935, the defendant was operating a freight-train, commonly known as a “peach-train,” on its branch line in Commerce, Georgia; that the persons employed at the peach packing-sheds and other loading places had been permitted to ride on the peach-trains with the knowledge and consent of the defendant, and that such riding had become “so notorious as to become an…