South Carolina Railroad v. Nix
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in Supreme Court. Railroads. Damages. Laws. Comity. Before Judge POTTLE. Richmond Superior Court. April Term, 1881. To the October term, 1877, of Richmond superior court Nix, administrator of Brown, brought suit against the. South Carolina Railroad for the homicide of his decedent.
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Practice in Supreme Court. Railroads. Damages. Laws. Comity. Before Judge POTTLE. Richmond Superior Court. April Term, 1881. To the October term, 1877, of Richmond superior court Nix, administrator of Brown, brought suit against the. South Carolina Railroad for the homicide of his decedent. The action was brought under the statute of South Carolina, which provides that actions for homicides shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person killed, shall be brought by or in the name of the legal representative, and the recovery shall be divided among the…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
1. In this case, the record showed that bills of exceptions pendente lite had been taken and allowed in the superior court during the progress of the case, but no mention was made of them in the bill of exceptions finally certified, and which brought the cause before this court by writ of error, and no assignments of error are made thereon in that final bill of exceptions.
Thereupon the plaintiff in error moved to assign error on these interlocutory bills of exception, which appeared legally certified and allowed in the transcript of the record.
The motion must be granted…
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