Tift v. Jones
Supreme Court of Georgia
Evidence. Practice in Superior Court. Practice in Supreme Court. Charge of Court. Negligence. Roads and Bridges. Before Judge Bower. Dougherty Superior Court.
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Evidence. Practice in Superior Court. Practice in Supreme Court. Charge of Court. Negligence. Roads and Bridges. Before Judge Bower. Dougherty Superior Court. April Term, 1886. This case will be found reported in 63 Ga. 488, and 74 Id. 469. On the last trial, the jury found for the plaintiff $10,000. The'defendant moved for a new trial on substantially the following grounds: (1.) Because the court refused to charge as follows: “ Ordinary care requires of a party crossing a chasm on timbers elevated at one end to look in front and to where he is placing his 'feet, and (see) whether the floor…
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, Judge.
The record in this case presents twenty-three assignments of error. Five of these, to-wit, the fourth, fifth, *189sixth, seventh and eighth, relate to the rulings and conduct of the judge pending the introdution of the evidence; sixteen, to-wit, .the first, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third, to the charge of the court, and two, to-wit, the second and third, to the verdict. We will pass upon these assignments in the order stated, except that, for…
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