Banks v. Georgia Railroad & Bkg. Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. April 7, 1900.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
This was an action proceeding in the name of James Banks, as the administrator of the estate of Fannie R. Thurmond deceased, against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, for the tortious homicide of Earl Thurmond, the husband of plaintiff’s-*656intestate. The petition alleged that the defendant had leased its track and franchise to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, and that there was no legislative authority exempting the defendant from responsibility for the acts of the lessee company in operating the road; that at the time of the homicide Earl Thurmond was in the employment of…
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