Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Peacock

C. L. Peacock sued the Western & Atlantic Railroad Company, alleging, that while he, as a postal clerk, was on a run between Nashville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, upon a passenger-train of the defendant, when that train reached the car-shed at Chattanooga, and while backing in under the shed, the rear end of the train negligently came into collision with a car standing on the defendant’s track, the engineer of the defendant negligently backing his engine with unnecessary violence and force. There was no allegation that the plaintiff was injured by the negligence of the engineer or any…