Legal Opinion

Miller v. East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Ry. Co.

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 26, 1894PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Action for damages. Before Judge Henry. Eloyd superior court. March term, 1893.

1Opinion of the Court

Simmons, Justice.

Miller, a youth of seventeen years, was a passenger on the defendant’s train from Rome to Cave Spring. As the train approached Cave Spring the usual signal of approach to the station was blown by the whistle of the locomotive, and shortly thereafter the. conductor came into the car where the plaintiff was, and called out “Cave Spring” twice, and then went .out of the front door. The plaintiff arose and went to the rear door of the car, supposing the train was about to stop at the station. It stopped about two hundred yards before reaching the station. It was about ten o’clock…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Wood v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1890

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Dallas v. Illinois Central RailroadCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1911
  2. Wolf v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1907
  3. Atkinson v. KennedyCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913

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