Southern Railway Co. v. Robertson
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Atlanta — Judge Eeid. June 12, 1909.
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
Robertson obtained-judgment in the city court of Atlanta against the Southern Railway Company; and to the overruling of a motion for new trial, filed by the latter, exception is taken. The plaintiff, at the time of receiving the injury sued for, was working in the company’s freight-yard at Birmingham, Alabama. It was a dark and rainy night, and while he was on top of a line of moving freight-cars, he was ordered by the conductor, under whose superintendency he was working, to come down off the car for the purpose of undertaking another duty. As he was descending on the ladder placed on the…
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