Legal Opinion

Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Rayford

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided July 19, 1902PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Action for damages. Before Judge Lumpkin. Fulton superior court. December 20, 1901.

1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.

George Rayford sued the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and the ease is here upon exceptions to the overruling of a general demurrer to the petition. The allegations of the petition, material to the consideration of the attack made upon it, are, that the petitioner and several other laborers, all in the employment of the defendant company, and under the charge and direct supervision of one Asbury,an agent of the defendant, were engaged in moving certain steel rails from one car to another; that *938Asbury pointed out a'certain rail, and directed petitioner to assist in moving it; that…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Pullman Palace Car Co. v. MartinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1893
  2. Blackstone v. Central of Georgia Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1898
  3. South Carolina & Georgia Railroad v. Augusta Southern RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
  4. Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Co. v. WelchSupreme Court of Georgia · 1878
  5. Bank of the State of Georgia v. O'NealSupreme Court of Georgia · 1897

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Frazier v. Southern Railway CompanySupreme Court of Georgia · 1946
  2. Citizens & Southern Bank v. Union Warehouse & Compress Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1924
  3. Kemp v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  4. Douglas, Augusta & Gulf Railway Co. v. SwindleCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1907
  5. Harvey v. ZellCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1952

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