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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Savannah, Fla. & Western Railway Co. v. Watson.
    The evidence warranted the verdict, and there waa no error in refusing a new trial.
    March 26, 1892.
    Argued afc the last term.
    Now trial. Railroads. Negligence. Before Judge IIansell. Brooks superior court. May term, 1891.
    The declaration of Watson alleged, in brief, that he was a hotel waiter and was sent by the keeper of the hotel, as was the daily custom and as was plaintiff’s duty, to take dinner to the conductor of one of defendant’s trains; that the conductor told him to put the waiter, upon which was the dinner, upon the desk in the cab car, and then commanded him to leave the car; that at this time the train was rapidly moving and he was afraid to leave the car, and told the conductor the train was moving too fast and that he was unwilling to do so, whereupon the conductor commanded and threatened that if he did not leave and jump from the car he (the conductor) would kick him off; and that when plaintiff left the car he was thrown violently upon the track, jerked under the wheel of the car and had the bottom of one of his feet torn and cut off, etc. He obtained a verdict for $1,650 ; the defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled, and it excepted.
    Erwin, duBignon & Chisholm, E. P. S. Denmark and S. T. Kingsbery, for plaintiff, in error.
    L. F. Haddock and’ J. G. McCall, by brief, contra.
    
   Judgment affirmed.