Southern Railway Co. v. Duncan

Mrs. Dora Duncan brought suit against the Southern Railway Company, a foreign corporation, and R. E. Brown, a resident of Georgia, for the alleged negligent homicide of her husband, J. A. Duncan, alleging that Brown was in the employment of the railway company as engineer, in charge of a switch-engine engaged in switching cars in what is known as the Decatur Street yards in Atlanta; that before his death her husband was a car-inspector whose duties required him to inspect cars in said yards; that in doing so it was necessary for him to go upon the railroad-tracks and between cars located…