Jones v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for penalty. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. November 14, 1907. Henry P. Jones, a minor, by next friend, brought an action against the Louisville and Nashville Kailroad Company and the Atlantic Coast Line Eailroad Company, to recover the statutory penalty for a refusal by the defendants to sell a ticket of a connecting railroad company.
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Action for penalty. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. November 14, 1907. Henry P. Jones, a minor, by next friend, brought an action against the Louisville and Nashville Kailroad Company and the Atlantic Coast Line Eailroad Company, to recover the statutory penalty for a refusal by the defendants to sell a ticket of a connecting railroad company. The defendants filed a general demurrer to the petition, and, at the trial term, filed a motion, in the nature of a general demurrer, to dismiss the same. Both the demurrer and the motion to dismiss were sustained; to which rulings the…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
This suit was brought under the statute embraced in sections 2299, 2300, and 2301 of the Civil Code. These sections are as follows: §2299. No railroad company having an office or agency- within the State of Georgia shall refuse to put on sale, or refuse to sell, any ticket of any other railroad Compaq, with which the same may be directly or indirectly connected, at the price or rate fixed by the railroad commission of this State, for passage over lines of such connecting roads, less such amount as may be directed to be deducted from such rate by any one or more of said connecting lines; and…
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- Southern Express Co. v. Hunnicutt & TurnerCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1908
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