Wood v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.

Simmons, Justice.

The minor children of Jackson Wood, by their next friend, brought their action against the railroad com*364pauy, and alleged in substance as follows : That on the 10th day of December, 1886, Jackson Wood was a passenger on the train of defendant bound from Macon to James’ Station; that defendant’s train left the depot at Macon on the night of said day and proceeded on its usual course until it arrived at the bridge which crosses Gcmulgee river in said city, and then stopped for the purpose of attaching thereto some freight-cars which were in the railroad yard about a quarter of a…