Hill v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Hammond. Columbia superior court. March 23, 1905. The petition of Mrs. A. E. Amaker made the following allegations. The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company is a domestic corporation, owning a line of railway in Columbia county, Georgia, which is operated by its lessees, the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, under the name of the Georgia Railroad Company.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Hammond. Columbia superior court. March 23, 1905. The petition of Mrs. A. E. Amaker made the following allegations. The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company is a domestic corporation, owning a line of railway in Columbia county, Georgia, which is operated by its lessees, the Louisville and Nashville Railway Company and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, under the name of the Georgia Railroad Company. Petitioner was the mother of W. A. Amaker, an unmarried son, upon whom she was entirely dependent for support and who actually contributed to hey support.…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
By reference to the petition it will be seen that the allegations of negligence, briefly stated, were: (1) That it was the custom of the defendants to allow persons to enter the ears, in order to assist passengers boarding the train, and,'before starting the train, to give certain signals for such persons to get -off, but on this occasion none of the usual signals 'was given, and before Amaker, who, in assisting his sister-in-law and her children with their bundles, had entered the car, could deposit the bundles, and while he was standing in the aisle of the car, the train started off slowly,…
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