Pierce v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.

There being evidence that the plaintiff was a passenger upon a train of the defendant company, having, a ticket from Redan, Georgia, to Atlanta, Georgia; that there was a well-established custom in respect to this particular train, which was known as the “shoo-fly” train, to slow it down or stop it at various street crossings and points in the yards of the defendant company, other than the regular station at Atlanta, for the purpose of receiving and discharging passengers; that the train slowed down at a point at which it was accustomed to slow down for the purpose of allowing passengers to…