Americus Gas & Electric Co. v. Coleman
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Americus — Judge Harper. March 14, 1914. ■
1Opinion of the CourtWade, J.
1. A verdict may be upheld when based upon evidence supporting allegations in a petition which are sufficiently definite (under the reasonable and liberal construction favored by the courts) to clearly put the opposite party on notice as to the cause of action relied upon.
(а) Measured in this way, the petition not only charged negligence on the part of the defendant in permitting certain electric wires to become exposed by loss of their insulating covering, and thereby extremely dangerous, but also charged negligence on account of the faulty construction of the electric-light system at the…
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