CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. GEORGIA PORTS AUTHORITY

77211.

190 Ga. App. 518 (1989)

379 S.E.2d 540

CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. GEORGIA PORTS AUTHORITY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Rehearing Denied March 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Miller, Simpson & Tatum, William F. Hinesley III, John B. Miller, for appellant.

Chamlee, Dubus, Sipple & Walter, George H. Chamlee, Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Marion O. Gordon, First Assistant Attorney General, J. Robert Coleman, Daniel M. Formby, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.


BEASLEY, Judge.

Blackwell, an employee of the appellant railroad, was injured when he attempted to remove a gangboard left between a warehouse platform and a freight car in the Ocean Terminal facilities of the appellee Ports Authority. Blackwell sued the railroad under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. The railroad brought a third-party complaint against the Authority pursuant to an agreement made in 1958 when the facility was sold to the Authority. Under it,...

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