L. & N. RAILROAD CO. v. MORELAND

45367.

122 Ga. App. 850 (1970)

178 S.E.2d 904

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. MORELAND et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided November 18, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell & Mitchell, D. W. Mitchell, Jr., for appellant.

Adams & Adams, Isaac C. Adams, Robert B. Adams, for appellee.


QUILLIAN, Judge.

1. (a) The defendant argues in this court that the trial judge should have granted its motion for new trial and motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict because there was no evidence of wilful and wanton negligence on the part of the defendant's agents.

Formerly, even where the stock law, popularly known as the "no fence" law, was applicable, the degree of negligence of a railroad was not changed from ordinary negligence to wilful and...

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