East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co. v. Head
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarice. Fulton superior court. March, term, 1893.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpicin, Justice.
A post was erected by the defendant near the line of its railway, for the purpose of supporting á contrivance commonly called a “telltale,” designed to warn employees upon trains of their approach to a bridge. The plaintiff’s husband, an engineer in the service of the company, left his seat upon the locomotive for the purpose of looking at a hot journal under the tender. While leaning outward and looking downward for this purpose, the locomotive being in motion, his head came in contact with this post, and he was killed. The plaintiff, his widow, brought an action to recover…
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