Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis Railway v. Peavler

At a certain point within the corporate limits of Borne the Southern Bailway crossed over the track of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Bailway by means of a bridge. Peavler was a member of a bridge gang of the former company and was at work with others on the piers of the bridge beside the track of the latter railroad. A train of the former company passed over *620tile bridge. It was contended that it was dangerous to remain under it, and the hands stepped out to one side of it; that on account of the high embankments on each side and of water alongside the track, caused by a recent rain,…