White v. Central Railroad & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Negligence. Nonsuit. Custom. License. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. June term, 1889. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
Rachel White sued the railroad company for damages for the homicide of her husband, James J. White, who on October 2d, 1884, while walking along its track, was killed by a passenger-train. The evidence showed, in brief, that the train was ten or fifteen minutes behind its schedule time; that it had passed beyond the corporate limits of Atlanta and of West End, and was running at the rate of 25 to 30 miles an hour; that White was walking upon the railroad track going in the same direction the train was going ; that there was a public road alongside the track on which White…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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