Court Opinion

ID: 9446631
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 22:00:00.653582+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:43.541487
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing
TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.
In her motion for rehearing appellee states that we have incorrectly assessed the effect of the stipulated plat or diagram of the scene of the accident. She asserts that the plat was not intended to show the precise point where the child was struck; rather, it is said, the plat was introduced to show other measurements. Since the measurements shown on the plat have significance only as they relate to the place of the accident, it is difficult to understand how the parties could not have intended to agree as to that spot as well as the other dimensions shown. Nevertheless, since counsel, and Judge RIVES in his dissenting opinion, feel that the majority has drawn improper conclusions from the stipulated plat, we now state what might have been preferable in the first instance:
Under the law as announced by the Georgia courts, as shown by the cases cited in the opinion, it makes no difference whether the child wandered onto the track from the pathway or from some other place where his front yard abuts the tracks. There can be no recovery here because there is no evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant railroad.
The petition for rehearing is denied.
RIVES, Circuit Judge, dissents.