Briscoe v. Southern Railway Co.

Butler street, in the city of Atlanta is spanned by a railway bridge which connects two portions of a high embankment. Upon this embankment and across this bridge are laid a number of railway-tracks, two of which were used by the Southern Railway Company, during the continuance of the Cotton States and International Exposition, for running trains carrying passengers between the city and the exposition grounds. For convenience, these two tracks will hereinafter be designated as the “exposition ” tracks. That one of them which was on the northern side or margin of the embankment was used for…