Travelers' Insurance v. Jones

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

Jones had an accident policy, commencing to operate in June, 1884, and continuing of force for one year. In January, 1885, he undertook to pass from some point in the city of Brunswick to his home in that city, and in walking along a railroad track, he stepped upon a trestle several feet in length, consisting of cross-ties elevated some six or eight feet above the bottom of a ditch, and requiring several steps (each from one cross-tie to another) to pass over it. The night was dark and rainy. He had in his arms or hands two packages; and while endeavoring to pass, he…