Davis v. Payne, Director General

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Fraser.

The undisputed facts of this case leave little room to doubt the result. The plaintiff’s intestate, Miss Lucile Davis, Miss Parsons, and a young man named Stilwell went out for a walk Sunday afternoon about 4 o’clock, on 8th September, 1918. They walked on the railroad of the Southern Railway between Beverly and Liberty, on the road between Atlanta and Charlotte. The road was double-tracked. That means that there was a track for trains going south and a track for trains going north. The war was on, and the railroads were under…