Autry v. Southern Railway Co.

Where a railway company in the construction or maintenance of its line of track creates or allows a deep and dangerous hole to form and for several years to continue on its property, immediately contiguous to its track and extending out into its property used as a street by a municipality, the company may be liable in damages to one riding in an automobile which was deflected by a drain into such hole; and the fact that the municipality may also be liable for such injury on account of a failure to keep the street in proper condition will not absolve the company from any liability to which it *9m…