Hamilton v. Richmond & Danville Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Negligence. Nonsuit. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. September term, 1888. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff was a night watchman in the yard of the railroad company. This yard included a platform (used for transferring freight), 150 or 200 yards in length, and about 8 feet wide. The duty of the watchman comprehended overlooking the platform as well as the rest of the yard. It also, embraced, according to his evidence, attention to the switches and care, in seeing that nothing happened by reason of the switches being wrong, and that no obstruction occurred to trains in passing over or through the yard. At night, in the, darkness, he ran along the platform with a…
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