Young v. Columbus & G. Ry. Co.

On the 13th day of December, 1930, about noontime, Perry Young, a colored man, sixty years of age, was walking upon the track of appellee railroad company near what is termed in the record as mile post 39, and was there killed by being run over by the train of appellee company presently to be mentioned. This mile post is approximately seventy yards east of a public crossing. The deceased was going west, and was being followed by a long freight train drawn by two locomotives; such a train being commonly called a double header. The train was maintaining a speed of about twenty-five miles per…