Roach v. Western & Atlantic Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Yan Epps. City court of Atlanta. January term, 1893.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
Boach, Lindsey and Saxon were riding in a buggy which belonged to Lindsey and which was being driven by Saxon. While crossing the main track of the Western and Atlantic Bailroad Company at a street crossing in Cartersville, the locomotive of a train ran into the buggy, killing Lindsey and injuring Boach and Saxon. Boach brought an action for damages, which resulted in a verdict for the defendant. Iiis motion for a new trial, which was overruled by the court, contains a large number of grounds, many of which are too trivial to require notice. The controlling questions in the…
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