Cook v. Southern Railway Co.

The plaintiff, a boy of eight years, by next friend, brought suit for damages against two railway companies, alleging that he was injured because of their negligence in having and maintaining along the right of way but not at a public crossing, one foot from end of cross-ties of one of the defendants, a signal system whereby two iron pipes used as shifting-rods ran from the tower at a crossing of the two railroads to a signal apparatus for control and operation of trains at a public street crossing in Helena, Georgia, on the tracks of one of said railroads, about sixty yards west from the…