Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Smith
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice. Charge of court. Railroads. Carriers. Contracts. Evidence. Pleadings. Mistake. Interest. Demand. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court. March term, 1889. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
In 1874, the State, as owner of the "Western & Atlantic railroad, brought suit in the name of the governor, against the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company, for $3,263.40 principal, besides interest, alleged *628overcharges by the latter paid to it by the former on iron consigned to another railroad company, the Selma, Borne & Dalton. All the iron, the subject-matter of the overcharges sued for, was shipped from Charleston?' most or all of it to Dalton, the residue if any to Borne, and passed first over the South Carolina, then- over the Georgia, and then over the State…
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