Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. McDade
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Schedules. Master and servant. New trial. Before ~W. L. Caliioun, Esq., Judge pro haovioe. DeKalb Superior Court. March Term, 1877. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
Two trains came in collision upon the Georgia Railroad. One of them was the down day-passenger train, bound from Atlanta to Augusta; -the other was the Stone Mountain passenger train, bound from Stone Mountain to Atlanta. The place of collision was about two miles from the mountain, and two or two and a half miles from a switch, the first station above. The precise time of the collision is not fixed by the evidence, but it was not earlier than seven o’clock, forty-one minutes, in the forenoon, and must have been not many minutes later. The official schedule for the down train…
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