Southern Railway Co. v. Pugh

This was an action against a railroad company for damages from injury to the plaintiff and his mule, in which a verdict was rendered for the defendant. According to the allegations of the petition, the injury occurred “within a few feet” of a regular public-road crossing about one mile north of the defendant’s station at Buford and outside of the town limits, about twelve o’clock in the day, but in a populous community where the presence of travelers over the crossing was to be anticipated. The crossing was at the end of á “large cut” through which there was a curve in the track. On the day…