125 Ga. 400 | Ga. | 1906
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
The case of Macon & Western R. Co. v. McConnell, 31 Ga. 133, is relied on by the defendant. It held that a railroad company had the right to have a woodpile for use by its engines at one of its stations, in such quantities and to such extent as its agents or employees thought proper. In the opinion some broad language is used by Lyon, J. Among other things he says that after the fire originated without negligence on the part of the company, it was urged that the employees did not at once drop everything and try