Charles v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

This was a suit for damages for the homicide of the plaintiff’s husband while he was in the employ of the defendant as a track-walker and section-hand. The following opinion which Judge Blair wrote in sustaining the demurrer to the petition fully meets our approval, and we adopt it as our opinion in this case.

“The decedent, as an employee of the defendant in interstate commerce, assumed all ordinary risks incident to the employment. In my opinion this rule controls the plaintiff’s case against her. L. & N. R. R. Co. v. Kemp, 140 Ga. 657 (79 S. E. 588); So. Ry. Co. v. Blackwell, 20 Ga. App.…