Gazaway v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

Deen, Judge.

The evidence on this appeal from a directed verdict for the defendant railroad on the trial of a crossing collision is substantially as follows: The plaintiff was on his way to work on a paved road paralleling the tracks when he decided to "heed a call of nature.” He turned off onto a dirt road which crossed the tracks about 30 yards away and led a short distance to a water tower of the City of Rockmart. It appears that there had originally been a farmhouse to which the road led. Thereafter the house was removed, and an archery club made sporadic use of *589the site for bow and arrow…