East Tennesse, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co. v. Turvaville
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Anniston City Court. Tried before Hon. B. F. Cassady. No brief came to hands of reporter. as to negligence of the engineer, cited L. (& N. R. R. v. Watson, 90 Ala. 68; Mo. Pac. Rwy. v. CaUbrcath, So. West Rep. 662; Ga. Pac. Rwy. v. Probst, 90 Ala. 1; L. & N. R. R. v. Perry, 78 Ala. 792; as to charge No. 1, Glass v. M. & O. R. R. 94 Ala. 581, and other authorities.
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, C. J.'
— The injury to Turvaville, for which the present action was brought, was suffered in an attempt by him to couple loaded freight cars on a spur track of the defendant railroad company. The cars were not of the pattern of the E. T. Ya. & Ga. Railroad Co., but were Union Line cars, having bumpers on either side of the draw heads. McKinney was examined as a witness for defendant. He testified that he had had long experience in railroading, and had served in every capacity from brakeman to yard-master, which latter office he then filled. He was a skillful brakeman and coupler. In…
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