Hicks v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff, Lula Green Hicks, was fishing at a place generally frequented by fishermen on the east side of the Flint River under or almost under the trestle of the defendant railroad across the river when she sustained injuries by a falling log which allegedly came from one of four cars loaded with pulpwood on one of the defendant’s trains moving across the trestle. She appeals from a directed verdict and judgment for defendant. Held:

1. Applying the ruling in Atlanta & W. P. R. Co. v. Wise, 190 Ga. 254 (9 SE2d 63); s. c., 61 Ga. App. 372 (6 SE2d 135), the situation…