Dunbar v. Hines
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari; from Court of Appeals. 25 Ga. App. 675. This was an action by an employee of a railroad company, to recover damages for personl injuries. The petition contained two counts.
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Certiorari; from Court of Appeals. 25 Ga. App. 675. This was an action by an employee of a railroad company, to recover damages for personl injuries. The petition contained two counts. In the first count the injury was alleged to have occurred under the following circumstances: About 3.30 o’clock in the afternoon of January 11, 1918, the plaintiff, as one of a switching crew composed of himself, a conductor in charge of the crew, an engineer and a fireman, was engaged in switching a freight-car' in the yards of the defendant, for the purpose of placing it opposite a small building near the…
1Opinion of the CourtHines, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. The first count of the petition in this case alleged (1) employment of the plaintiff by the defendant carrier, (2) injury while in such employment, (3) injury to the plaintiff while in the discharge of his duty as a switchman, resulting from his being struck by some heavy wooden substance, not a part of the car, on the ladder of which he was riding, and giving signals to the engineer as the car was being backed toward the place where it was to be deposited,' said heavy wooden substance being blown by the wind from the top of the car and injuring him; (4)…
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