Ellison v. Georgia Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Stare decisis. Amendment. Railroads. Negligence1. Parent and child. Master and servant. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court.
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Stare decisis. Amendment. Railroads. Negligence1. Parent and child. Master and servant. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court. September term, 1890. The action was by Mrs. Ellison against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and the declaration .alleged, in substance, as follows: On the 21st of December, 1887, Morgan Ellison, her son, seventeen years old, without either wife or child, and who contributed to her support, was in the employment of the Central Railroad & Banking Company as a train-hand, and on the night of that day, in the proper exercise of his duties, was…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. Some courts live by correcting the errors of others *696and adhering to their own. On these terms courts of final review hold their existence, or those of them which are strictly and exclusively courts of review, without any original jurisdiction, and with no direct function but to find fault or see that none can be found. With these exalted tribunals, who live only to judge the judges, the rule of stare decisis is not only a canon of the public good, but a law of self-preservation. At the peril of their lives they must discover error abroad and be discreetly blind to…
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