Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Seabrook. Warren superior court. September 10, 1904. Penina Wilson brought suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, a foreign corporation, as the lessee of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, a corporation under the laws of Georgia.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Seabrook. Warren superior court. September 10, 1904. Penina Wilson brought suit against the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, a foreign corporation, as the lessee of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, a corporation under the laws of Georgia. She alleged that the defendant company-had damaged her in the sum of $2,000, for the following reasons: On or about the 12th day of March, 1903, her husband, Hamp Wilson, died in Atlanta, Georgia. After his death she delivered his body to the defendant company, to be carried from Atlanta to Warrenton,…
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
(After stating the facts.) Death is unique. It is unlike aught else in its certainty and its incidents. A corpse in some respects is the strangest thing on earth. ■ A man who but yesterday breathed, and thought, and walked among us has passed away. Something has gone. The body is left still and cold, and is all that is visible to mortal eye of the man we knew. Around it cling love and memory. Beyond it may reach hope. It must be laid away. And the law — that rule of action which touches all human things — must touch also this thing of death. It is not surprising that the law relating to this…
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