Atkinson v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Reece. City court of Floyd county. March term, 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
The plaintiff sued the railway company for damages alleged to have been sustained on account of having been wrongfully expelled from one of its trains. Upon the trial it appeared, from the testimony introduced in behalf of the plaintiff, that he desired to go as a passenger upon one of the trains of the defendant from the city of Rome to a station called Seney. When he went to the ticket-office of the defendant and informed the ticket-agent that he desired to go to Seney, the agent told him that the train to Seney had gone. Upon his asking the agent when there would be another train to Seney,…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Head v. Georgia Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1887
- Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. RobertsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1893
- Murdock v. Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
- South & North Ala. Railroad v. HuffmanSupreme Court of Alabama · 1884
- Burnham v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1873
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- Shoenig v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1915