Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Lowe

1. The defendants insist the petition is contra*10dictory in that it alleged the train was traveling in both an easterly and westerly direction. This contention is not well founded because the petition alleged the defendants were “operating a train on said tracks at a point approximately two miles in a westerly direction from the Town of James in Jones County, Georgia.” This allegation merely located the train’s position on the tracks and not the direction in which it was traveling. The petition then alleged the train was traveling in an “easterly direction from Macon, Georgia, and toward the…