O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 9-11-114 (2019)

Form of complaint for negligence under Federal Employers’ Liability Act

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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IN THE

STATE OF GEORGIA A.B.,

) Plaintiff

) )

v. C.D., Defendant

) )

Civil action File no.

) )

(Clerk will insert number.)

COMPLAINT The defendant C.D., herein named, is a resident of (street), (city), County, Georgia, and is subject to the jurisdiction of this court. 1. During all the times herein mentioned defendant owned and operated in interstate commerce a railroad which passed through a tunnel located at and known as Tunnel No. . 2. On or about June 1, 1966, defendant was repairing and enlarging the tunnel in order to protect interstate trains and passengers and freight from injury and in order to make the tunnel more conveniently usable for interstate commerce. 3. In the course of thus repairing and enlarging the tunnel on said day, defendant employed plaintiff as one of its workmen and negligently put plaintiff to work in a portion of the tunnel which defendant had left unprotected and unsupported. 4. By reason of defendant’s negligence in thus putting plaintiff to work in that portion of the tunnel, plaintiff was, while so working pursuant to the defendant’s orders, struck and crushed by a rock which fell from the unsupported portion of the tunnel and was (here describe plaintiff’s injuries).

5. Prior to these injuries, plaintiff was a strong, able-bodied man, capable of earning $ per day. By these injuries he has been made incapable of any gainful activity, has suffered great physical and mental pain, and has incurred expense in the amount of $ for medicine, medical attendance, and hospitalization. Wherefore, plaintiff demands judgment against defendant in the sum of $ and costs. Attorney for plaintiff Address

History

(Ga. L. 1966, p. 609, § 114; Ga. L. 1980, p. 649, § 12.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in White v. Augusta Motel Hotel Inv. Co., 119 Ga. App. 351, 167 S.E.2d 161

(1969); Dillingham v. Doctors Clinic, 135 Ga. App. 736, 219 S.E.2d 2 (1975).

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. - What employees are engaged in interstate commerce within the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 10 ALR 1184; 14 ALR 732; 24 ALR 634; 29 ALR 1207; 49 ALR 1339; 65 ALR 613; 77 ALR 1374; 90 ALR 846. Applicability of state statutes and rules of law to actions under Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 36 ALR 917; 89 ALR 693. Railroad employee injured while engaged in removing weeds, brush, etc.,

from roadbed or right of way, as within Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 143 ALR 481. Right of foreign domiciliary, or of ancillary, personal representative to maintain action for death under Federal Employers’ Liability Act, 163 ALR 1284. Applicability of state practice and procedure in Federal Employers’ Liability Act actions brought in state courts, 79 ALR2d 553.

9-11-115 through 9-11-117. Reserved.