Henson v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Henson v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Opinion of the Court
The evidence shows that a young man twenty years old, and “presumptively chargeable with the same standard of diligence for his own safety as an adult” (Bugg v. Knowles, 33 Ga. App. 710, 127 S. E. 814 (1); Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Fulford, 33 Ga. App. 631, 127 S. E. 812), voluntarily sat down upon the rail of a railroad-track near a depot, but not at a crossing of any kind; that he was sitting with his elbows on his knees and his head resting in his hands, and was in this position as the train approached the station, and at the time the whistle sounded the station or a danger signal, and that he “never made any effort to get out of the way until the train got within the length of a rail of him.” In Lowe v. Payne, 156 Ga. 312 (118 S. E. 924), Judge Hines, after citing a number of cases to support the propositions, lays down (p. 316) two general propositions of law. “(1) If a homicide occurs at a place upon the track of a railway company, where it was the duty of the servants of the company to anticipate the presence of persons on the track, and their failure to so anticipaté the presence of others thereon amounts to mere negligence, the negligence of the person killed, under such
Judgment on main bill of exceptions affirmed; cross-bill dismissed.
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