Sharpe v. Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co.

Annie Lee Wilkerson brought her action for damages against Seaboard Air-Liné Eailway Company in the superior court of Tattnall county. The petition contains three counts: the first count alleging that the defendant’s westbound freight-train struck and killed plaintiff’s husband, Thomas Wilkerson, some time between midnight and daylight on July 10, 1937, at a point in Tattnall county about one mile west of Collins, G-a.; the second count alleging that the defendant’s employees forced said Wilkerson to attempt to get off the train while it “was running fast,” and that in so doing his clothing…