McGinnis v. Shaw

This was a joint suit against a railway company and the driver of an automobile in which the plaintiff was riding as a guest, for injuries alleged to have been sustained in a collision, which occurred between nine and ten o’clock at night, at a railroad-crossing within the limits of the City of Cedartown, between the automobile and an engine and tender of the defendant railway company which were being backed over the crossing. Negligence was charged against the railway company in that it failed *249to give any signal or warning, to persons approaching the crossing, of the presence of the…