Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Pelfry
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Athens — Judge West. December 4, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtPottle, J.
The plaintiff’s husband was run over ’and killed while lying down upon the defendant’s track. He had been drinking, and, a short time before the homicide, was seen on the defendant’s trestle with a sack of flour, weighing 50 pounds, on his shoulder. At that time he was very drunk, fired his pistol promiscuously, and, when warned that a train would come along in a few minutes, remarked that he “had a gun to stop anything — he *120didn’t care anything about the train.” He walked on across the trestle about a quarter of a mile beyond, and evidently lay or fell down across the track in a drunken…
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