Legal Opinion

Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Walker

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided May 8, 1891PublishedCited by 5 opinions

From McDuffie superior court, March term, 1890. Before Judge Roney.

1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, J.

1. The fact that the people of a certain section had held a mass-meeting and agreed to disregard the “stock law” does not repeal the law, and evidence of such fact should not have been admitted.

2. In an action against a railroad company for the negligent killing *205of a cow, evidence that the company had at different times paid other persons for cattle killed by its trains at the same place was irrelevant and inadmissible.

May 8, 1891. From McDuffie superior court, March term, 1890. Before Judge Roney. J. B. Cumming and Bryan Cumming, for plaintiff in error. S. A. Walker, -by brief, contra.

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2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Wright v. DilbeckCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1970
  2. Interstate Forwarding Co. v. VineyardCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1928
  3. Rome Railway & Light Co. v. LansdellCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913
  4. Chapman v. WaldenSupreme Court of Georgia · 1936
  5. Wright v. DilbeckCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1970

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