Norwood v. Tellico River Lumber Co.

The plaintiff below, Greeley Norwood, brought this action in the circuit court of Monroe county against the defendant, Tellieo River Lumber Company, to recover for personal injuries sustained while riding on one of defendant’s logging trains in Monroe county, Tenn.

Plaintiff filed his declaration on June 16, 1921, averring, among other things, that on July 25, 1920, defendant was operating a line of railroad from Tellico Plains, .in Monroe county, Tenn., to its logging or lumber camp in said county about forty miles distant from Tellico Plains; that defendant was a common carrier of both…