Holland v. Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Co.

1. At a place where people are accustomed to cross a railroad-track, which is also a place used by passengers boarding and alighting from trains, and which is generally used by the public with the knowledge and consent of the railroad company, the company owes no duty to a person who is merely standing by the side of the railroad-track while a train is passing, and who is not there for the purpose of crossing the track or boarding the train, to refrain from negligently allowing a lump of coal to fall from the train and rest upon the ground by the side of the track, where, in moving away from…