Atlanta & West Point Railroad v. Hyde

Alvin M. Hyde recovered a verdict and judgment against the Atlanta & West Point Eailroad Company in an action for personal injuries. The first question raised by the record is whether the trial judge erred in overruling the defendant’s motion to dismiss the petition, on the ground that it “did not make out or present a cause of action.”

*549Omitting those allegations that are deemed unnecessary in determining the question presented for decision, the petition makes substantially the following case: 2. Defendant “maintains a passenger-depot at Newnan, . . at which passengers are entrained and…