Weightsville & Tennille Railroad v. Gornto
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Bawlings. Johnson superior court. September 7, 1906. Elizabeth Gornto brought an action for damages against tbe Wrightsville & Tennille Bailroad Company, for the alleged wrongful homicide of ‘her husband, William C. Gornto.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Bawlings. Johnson superior court. September 7, 1906. Elizabeth Gornto brought an action for damages against tbe Wrightsville & Tennille Bailroad Company, for the alleged wrongful homicide of ‘her husband, William C. Gornto. The petition alleged that the plaintiff’s husband was traveling in a wagon, drawn by a mule which he was driving, along a public thoroughfare within the city of Wrightsville, and while crossing defendant’s railroad track, on and over a public crossing in sncb city, a passenger-train of the defendant company ran into his wagon, threw him out…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
(After stating the facts.) 1. A witness for the plaintiff testified, that he knew the deceased, who was a good farmer and cultivated about a two-horse farm,' renting one of the farms most of the time and cultivating the other one-horse farm himself, and making from six to seven hundred dollars a year, and in good crop years about one thousand dollars. The defendant objected to the admission of this evidence, on the ground of irrelevancy, and that speculative earnings of farms, according to good or bad years, could not illustrate the earning capacity of the deceased. Clearly the objections…
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