Morgan v. Mobile O. R. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Oourt, Tuscaloosa County; Henry B. Foster, Judge. Action by Cecil Morgan, pro ami, against the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement.
MAYFIELD, J.
Appellee constructed and maintains a wooden bridge along Seventh .street in the city of Tuscaloosa where that street crosses its railroad track. The track where it crosses this and other streets in that vicinity is in a deep cut — 20 or 30 feet .deep where it crosses Seventh street. The •bridge thus forms the highway across appellee’s track at this point. The bridge, however, is only about 22 feet wide, while the street is about 90 feet wide. At the time of the accident there was no partition which separated the part of the bridge used by pedestrians from that part used…
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