The Georgia Court of Appeals has been asked to decide how far a railroad's duty extends when parking train cars for customers after a client's employee was injured trying to move one. How the appellate court rules will determine how far a railroad's duty of care to its customers extends.

The appeal was brought by CSX Transportation, represented by Daryl Clarida of Macon-based Hall Bloch Garland & Meyer at oral argument, after sawmill employee Theatris Oglesby, represented by Brent Savage Jr. of Savage, Turner, Pinckney, Savage & Sprouse, was injured when attempting to move what the plaintiff says was an improperly parked rail car CSX dropped off.