Holly v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Reid. City court of Atlanta. January 20,1903.
1Opinion of the Court
Candler* J.
The- plaintiff, as next friend of her minor daughter, Lillian Leslie Holly, sued the Southern Railway Company for damages on account of the loss of a trunk and its contents. The original petition set out merely the delivery of the trunk to the defendant in Washington, D. C., and the receipt of a check therefor; a demand for it in Atlanta, and the failure, then and subsequently, to comply with that demand; and charged that the trunk was lost by reason of the negligence of the defendant *768company. By an amendment the allegation of negligence was stricken, and in lieu thereof it was…
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