Georgia Railroad v. Williams
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Damages. Negligence. Evidence. Roads and Bridges. Before Judge Pottle. Warren Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1884. Williams brought suit against the Georgia Railroad for a personal injury, resulting from being run over by a train, laying his damages at $20,000.00. Defendant pleaded the . general issue and a special plea, which was as follows : “ And now comes the defendant, by its attorneys, and says that it is true, as stated in plaintiff’s declaration,…
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Railroads. Damages. Negligence. Evidence. Roads and Bridges. Before Judge Pottle. Warren Superior Court. October Adjourned Term, 1884. Williams brought suit against the Georgia Railroad for a personal injury, resulting from being run over by a train, laying his damages at $20,000.00. Defendant pleaded the . general issue and a special plea, which was as follows : “ And now comes the defendant, by its attorneys, and says that it is true, as stated in plaintiff’s declaration, that plaintiff was injured at the time and place stated in his declaration by the running of defendant’s locomotive and…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The main question presented for our adjudication by the plaintiff in error in this case is, whether non-compliance with the law in regard to the duty of railroad companies, in respect to the erection of blowing-posts, the blowing and continuing to blow whistles, and the checking and Continuing to check speed in running, so as to keep the train under control at public crossings, may go to the jury as a circumstance showing negligence, where the person injured was hurt, some two hundred yards beyond the crossing, on the track, without permission of the company i o be…
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