LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CHILDERS

40557.

109 Ga. App. 162 (1964)

135 S.E.2d 527

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY et al. v. CHILDERS.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided February 17, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erwin, Birchmore & Epting, Eugene A. Epting, for plaintiffs in error.

Gary L. Pleger, contra.


EBERHARDT, Judge.

Were the defendant railroads guilty of any actionable negligence under the facts alleged? This is the primary and controlling issue on the appeal.

The positive allegations of the petition show that the path passed through a space nine feet wide between the railroad tracks and the culvert. Given such a distance, there is simply no negligence on the part of the railroads in the maintenance of the culvert off the traveled part of the path. Foreseeability...

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