Southern v. Cowan Stone Co.

The trial judge sustained a demurrer to the plaintiff’s declaration and dismissed her suit. She has seasonably appealed and assigned error.

The plaintiff charged in her declaration, as amended, that the defendants were the owners and operators of a ramp for loading lime and stone into railroad cars at Anderson, Franklin County, Tennessee; that said ramp was approached from a public road by a road leading from said public road to said ramp. “The road and ramp leading from said public road were built for a road, used by the defendants as a road, and the public generally used said road and ramp…