Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Morgan

Morgan brought suit against the Central of Georgia Railway Company for alleged personal injuries, and set out in his petition that while walking along a street in Columbus, Georgia, he reached a point where the tracks of the defendant company crossed that street, and found the crossing obstructed by a switch-engine and cars of the defendant company. He stopped and waited for the crossing to be cleared. A wagon, drawn by a pair of mules, and belonging to the Chero-Cola Company, drove up behind him and also stopped. The engine cleared the crossing, and the flagman of the defendant company,…