ADAMS v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY

73338.

180 Ga. App. 578 (1986)

349 S.E.2d 809

ADAMS v. SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided October 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Moseley, Jr., Donald F. Ruzicka, for appellant.

Burt DeRieux, Harold S. White, Jr., Keith J. Reisman, for appellee.


BANKE, Chief Judge.

The appellant sued the appellee, Southern Railway Company, to recover damages under the Federal Employers' Liability Act for the death by heatstroke of her husband, a former employee of the railway. This appeal follows a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the appellee.

On the day he died, the decedent was a member of an 8-man crew assigned to unload a "ballast train," which is a train loaded with rock to be placed on the track...

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