Hill v. Chattanooga Railway & Light Co.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from Catoosa superior court — Judge Tarver. March 31, 1917. Hill brought suit by attachment against the Chattanooga Railway & Light Company, a foreign corporation, claiming damages for personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted by defendant’s agents in the negligent operation of its street-car.
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Action for damages; from Catoosa superior court — Judge Tarver. March 31, 1917. Hill brought suit by attachment against the Chattanooga Railway & Light Company, a foreign corporation, claiming damages for personal injuries alleged to have been inflicted by defendant’s agents in the negligent operation of its street-car. The petition alleged that on July 17, Í914, plaintiff: undertook to board one of defendant’s ears in Rossville at a point where the car- turned into Rossville Boulevard, and just-as he was attempting to board the car as a passenger of the defendant, as was usual and customary…
1Opinion of the CourtHarwell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The several
assignments of error on the charge of the court have been sufficiently disposed of in the headnotes of this opinion. The ■ only headnote which needs elaboration is the 9th. In ground 10 of the motion for a new trial it is insisted that a new trial should be granted because two of the jurors who tried the case were related to employees of 'the defendant company. Affidavits of the plaintiff and his counsel were offered in support of this ground, and it was shown, with reference to one of these jurors, that the relationship was unknown to them at…
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