Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Shigg

Patsy t Shigg, as administratrix of Robin Shigg, sued the Seaboard Air-Line Railway for damages on account of the alleged negligent killing of Robin Shigg by a train of the defendant company. From the petition it appears that on a named day the deceased, with two children, aged respectively ten and twelve years, was walking on a trestle belonging to the defendant, which crossed the Savannah river, from the State of Georgia to the State of South Carolina. This trestle was about four miles long. Shigg lived on an island in the Savannah river, on the South Carolina side; and, on account 'of the…