Geo. Pacific Railway Co. v. Hughes
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. Leroy F. Box. This action was brought by Thomas B. Hughes against the appellant corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff from a collision of a street railway car, on which he was a passenger, and a train of cars belonging to the defendant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Jefferson. Tried before the Hon. Leroy F. Box. This action was brought by Thomas B. Hughes against the appellant corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff from a collision of a street railway car, on which he was a passenger, and a train of cars belonging to the defendant. The collision occurred on the 16th March, 1888, at the intersection of two streets in the city of Birmingham, where the tracks of the two railroads crossed each other; and the action was brought on the 13th April, 1888. The court charged the jury, among…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
The East Lake Dummy Line of railway extends from the business part of the city of Birmingham, eastwardly to East Lake. It is a street railway, the cars of which are drawn by steam power, called a dummy engine. Within the corporate limits of Birmingham, at the intersection of First Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street, the East Lake railway track crosses two lateral tracks of the Georgia Pacific Bailway Company, that were used in receiving and transferring cars from and to other railroads that center in *612Birmingham. The railroad, crossings are in a public street, or at the point of intersection of…
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