Coleman v. Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad

1. A railroad company is under no duty to a person unloading merchandise from a car on a side-track to a wagon, to which a horse is hitched, to comply with the requirements of the Civil Code, § 2224, respecting the giving of signals and checking the speed of the train before reaching a public crossing.

2. While under some circumstances a railroad company may be under a duty to warn a person, who is near its track by its permission, of the approach of a train, the failure to do so in the present case did not authorize a recovery, because it is manifest from the evidence that the omission to…