Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Robertson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Bartlett. Houston superior court. April term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Chief Justice.
Bobertson sued the railroad company for damages which he alleged had been sustained by him from the running of its train of cars against his mules and wagon while they were stalled upon the track at a crossing kept up by the defendant, because a cross-tie placed in the crossing by the defendant was rotten and broken, etc. There was a verdict for the plaintiff for $75, and the defendant’s motion for a new trial being overruled, it excepted. ■—
It was contended on the part of the railroad company, that the crossing at which the injury occurred not being a public road or a…
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