Carroll v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
■ New trial. Practice. Railroads. Negligence. Charge of court. Master and servant. Evidence. Notice. Before Judge G-ustin. Bibb, superior court. May term, 1888. John M. Carroll sued the railroad company for injuries which he sustained in a collision on that road, he being the fireman on one of the colliding engines.
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■ New trial. Practice. Railroads. Negligence. Charge of court. Master and servant. Evidence. Notice. Before Judge G-ustin. Bibb, superior court. May term, 1888. John M. Carroll sued the railroad company for injuries which he sustained in a collision on that road, he being the fireman on one of the colliding engines. The following was, in substance, the testimony for the plaintiff:*: He was in his twenty-fourth year at the time of the trial, which occurred about a year after he was injured. Was fireman on defendant’s engine; had made only three or four trips; was a new and green hand. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. The case was tried at the November adjourned term, 1887, and the motion for a new trial was made during the same term, the hearing of the motion being fixed by order for a day in vacation and then continued to the following May term. Other continuances took place during the May term, each of them being to a particular day. One of these days was June 80th, on which no action was taken with reference to the motion. On July 2d the motion was taken up and continued to a subsequent day in the same month, and on the latter to a still later day, when it came up for a *470hearin…
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