Legal Opinion

Selma, Rome & Dalton Railroad v. Lacey

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 15, 1872PublishedCited by 27 opinions

State. Constitutional law. Comity. Railroads. Amendment. For the facts of this case, see the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Warner, Chief Justice.

On the first of October, 1870, the plaintiff instituted her action against Barney, superintendent, and Breed, lessee, of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company, in the county of Whitfield, in this State, to recover damages for the killing of her husband by the running of an engine and train of cars by said railroad company on the 3d day of August, 1870, near Oxford,'in the State of Alabama. The case was tried in the Court below, and brought before this Court by a *108writ of error at the July term, 1871, when the judgment of the Court below was reversed, this Court…

2Cited by27 opinions

  1. Herrick v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
  2. Slaton v. HallSupreme Court of Georgia · 1929
  3. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. BagleySupreme Court of Kansas · 1902
  4. South Carolina Railroad v. NixSupreme Court of Georgia · 1882
  5. Taylor v. MurraySupreme Court of Georgia · 1974

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