Atlanta & Charlotte Air-Line Railway Co. v. Leach

Lumpkin, Justice.

1. It is the grossest kind of negligence to walk upon a long and very bigb trestle of a railroad over which, trains are constantly passing. The exercise of ordinary care and prudence would have prevented the plaintiff’s husband from exposing himself to danger by going upon the trestle, and even after he went upon it, he might, after becoming aware of the approaching train, have saved himself if he had not encumbered himself with the care of a small boy. The evidence shows that the company’s servants did all in their power to stop the train after seeing the man and boy on the…