Coggin v. Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Master and servant. Contracts. Evidence. Before Judge Grice. Bibb Superior Court. April Term, 1878. On October 5, 1875, Coggin commenced suit against the Central Railroad to recover $10,000.00 as damages for a personal injury.
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Railroads. Master and servant. Contracts. Evidence. Before Judge Grice. Bibb Superior Court. April Term, 1878. On October 5, 1875, Coggin commenced suit against the Central Railroad to recover $10,000.00 as damages for a personal injury. The declaration was in case, and alleged, in substance, that plaintiff was an employee of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and as such was engaged on the 10th of May 1870, in unloading poles from defendant’s cars, for repairing the telegraph line along defendant’s road, between Macon and Atlanta — that defendant had contracted with said telegraph company…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Justice.
1. It may be doubted whether there is any way for a chartered railroad company, without special permission by statute, to let out one or more of its locomotives and cars to be run by steam upon the railway track of the corporation, and withdraw itself from responsibility for care and diligence in the manner of running. The charter privileges are granted to the corporation, and in accepting them, it assumes the correlevant obligations. One of the latter, and a very important one, where steam-power is employed, is the use of due care and diligence to guard against injury *691to…
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