118 Ga. 826 | Ga. | 1903
The plaintiff below, who is also the plaintiff in error in this court, was a telegraph lineman in the employment of the defendant railroad company, and his duties consisted in “ repairing, putting up, and fixing telegraph wires, and doing other such work for the defendant company.” He was a member of a gang of such workmen, whom the defendant transported over its line of railroad free of charge between points on the line where their work might be needed. These workmen were carried in freight-box cars which were fitted up as “camp cars” especially for their use, and it is inferable that they ate and slept in these cars. While the plaintiff was being thus transported over the defendant’s line, several cars in the train, including the one in which he was riding, were derailed and turned over, and he was injured. He brought suit against the company, charging that it was negli
Judgment reversed.