Case Name: FICKLEN et al. v. ELBERTON & EASTERN RAILROAD CO.
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1920-03-02
Citations: 25 Ga. App. 5
Docket Number: 11122
Parties: FICKLEN et al. v. ELBERTON & EASTERN RAILROAD CO.
Judges: Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 5–5

Head Matter:
11122.
FICKLEN et al. v. ELBERTON & EASTERN RAILROAD CO.
Decided March 2, 1920.
Where in an action for damages on account of the closing of ways of entrance to certain lands by the construction of a railroad it appeared, from evidence of the plaintiffs, that the passageway closed was not a private way or public road as defined by law, and that there was still a way to cross the railroad and reach the lands of the plaintiffs, though not as convenient as the one closed, and that in condemnation proceedings before the railroad was built, damages as to the same lands were assessed in favor of the plaintiffs against the railroad company, the court did not err in granting a nonsuit.
Action for damages; from Wilkes superior court — Judge Walker. November 3,1919.
Carroll D. Colley, Clement E. Button, for plaintiffs.
W. A. Slaton, for defendant.

Opinion:
Luke, J.
The plaintiffs sued the railroad company for damages, alleging that they had been damaged by reason of the construction of a railroad across their land and the enclosing of certain claimed ways of entrance thereto, etc. At the conclusion of the plaintiffs' evidence the court granted a nonsuit, and upon this judgment error is assigned. An examination of the evidence shows that the plaintiffs were inconvenienced by reason of the railroad embankment and the closing of a certain passageway, which, however, was not a private way or a public road as defined by law, and that there is a way to get across the railroad and reach the lands of the plaintiffs, though not as convenient as one would wish. But before the railroad was built, condemnation proceedings were had, and the plaintiffs' damages were, by a verdict of a jury in the superior court upon an appeal from the return of the assessors in the condemnation proceeding, assessed as to the very lands now giving rise to the claim for damages. We see no error in the nonsuit. See Cox v. E. T. &c Railroad, 68 Ga. 446; Civil Code (1910), § 807.
Judgment affirmed.
Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.