Berry v. Northeastern Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Damages. Negligence. Roads and Bridges. Before Judge Estes. Habersham Superior Court. February Term, 1883. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
This was a suit to recover damages for the homicide of the plaintiff's husband, who was killed, while in a state of intoxication, by falling into a cut eighteen or twenty feet deep, in the night-time, on the defendant’s railway. It appears, from the testimony in the case, that the railroad severed a way about eight feet wide, and which had been used by persons residing in the neighborhood, for twenty or thirty years previous to the time in question generally as a foot-way, or by persons riding on horseback, and only occasionally by those riding in carriages on wheels. After the…
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