Southern Ry. Co. v. King
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia.
1Opinion of the Court
BURNS, District Judge.
These suits were brought in the superior court of Habersham county, state of Georgia, against the Southern Railway Company, and were removed by the latter to the United States Circuit Court. Mrs. King sought recovery for the death of her husband, and Inez, a minor, sued by next friend for personal injuries which she had sustained. The grounds of negligence set out in both petitions are practically the same. Mrs. King alleging that, on the day of the accident, “your petitioner, her daughter,, Inez, about 14 years old, and her husband, A. O. King, were in a buggy drawn by…
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