Harper v. Southern Railway Co.

While Judge Price Edwards, one of the judges of the superior courts of Georgia, was presiding over the superior court of Haralson county, one of the counties of his home circuit, the case of Mrs. Zether Harper, administratrix of the estate of W. T. Harper v. Southern Railway Company was tried, and a verdict was rendered and a judgment entered. The next week, while Judge James Maddox, of the Rome circuit, was presiding for Judge Edwards in the superior court of Haralson county, and while Judge Maddox was actually engaged in presiding over the trial of another case, or while the trial of the…