Case ID: ga_74/html/0396-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blandford, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Littlejohn vs. The Central Railroad.
    A mother brought her action against a railroad for the homicide of her minor son. The evidence for the plaintiff made the following case: She lived in Russell county, Alabama; her son, who was eighteen year’s old, went to Atlanta to go into business as a butcher, but hired himself to defendant as a switchman and car-coupler; whi.e he was engaged in shoving a car from a side track to a main track, he was caught between the tender of the engine and a car, and crushed' to death; he was looking towards the engine, when he should have been looking ahead at the car before him; if he had been at the place where he should have been, he would not have been hurt; no negligence was shown on the part of the defendant’s servants or agents:
    
      Held, that a verdict for the defendant was demanded by the evidence; and even if there had been any slight errors committed by the court, this would not work a reversal; but the charge of the court was a correct exposition of the law as applicable to this case.
    Judgment affirmed.
    January 21, 1885.
   Blandford, Justice.