Case Name: East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co. v. Smith
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1894-06-25
Citations: 94 Ga. 580
Docket Number: 
Parties: East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co. v. Smith.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 94
Pages: 580–581

Head Matter:
East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co. v. Smith.
1. Where one receives a personal injury which causes at first temporary unconsciousness, and a physician is called, and during his attendance, extending continuously through some weeks, the patient complains of pain, and indicates the region thereof in her system, these facts are competent evidence in her favor on the trial of an action for the tort causing the injury, when testified to by the physician in connection with a description of the symptoms which he observes in the course of his attendance and treatment.
2. According to the principle laid down by this court in Atlanta & Charlotte Air-Line By. Co. v. Gravitt, 93 Ga. 369, the railway company was not, relatively to the plaintiff who was injured by a passing train about 125 yards from a public crossing, under any duty to comply with the statutory requirements as to blowing the whistle and checking the speed of the train, and consequently the failure to observe these requirements was not, as to her, negligent, and she was not entitled to recover. Bueckley, C. J., dissenting.
June 25, 1894.
Argued at the last term.
Action for damages. Before Judge Henry. Floyd superior court. Marcli term, 1898.
McCutchen & Shumate and Hoskinson & Harris, for plaintiff in error.
"Wrights & Harper and Bean & Smith, contra.

Opinion:
Judgment reversed,.