Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Co. v. Adkins
Supreme Court of Georgia
Damages. Before Judge Crum. Crisp superior court. February 17, 1923. The administrator of the estate of J. T. Prescott brought suit seeking to recover from Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company damages because of the alleged negligent homicide of Prescott.
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Damages. Before Judge Crum. Crisp superior court. February 17, 1923. The administrator of the estate of J. T. Prescott brought suit seeking to recover from Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company damages because of the alleged negligent homicide of Prescott. The petition makes, in substance, the following case: that at the intersection of Seventh Street and Eighteenth Avenue in the City of Cordele both these streets cross the four tracks of defendant; that there is at all times a large amount of traffic at this point on these streets; that the tracks of defendant at this point are in…
1Opinion of the CourtGilbert, J.
1. As will be seen from the statement of the ease, the action is based on section 2782 of the Civil Code of 1910, which is a codification of the act approved August 16, 1909 (G?.. Laws 1909, p. 160). This act fixes the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees. An employee is alleged to have been killed by an intrastate railroad-train of the company by which he was employed. The plaintiff brought suit as administrator of the estate of the employee, for the benefit of the “next of kin dependent upon' such employee.” The act provides for a recovery, where the railroad is…
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