Moore v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Beagan. Spalding superior court. January 18, 1910.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
The plaintiff, Mrs. Lou Moore, brought suit against the Southern Bailway Company to recover for the killing of her son, Travis Moore, near the Griffin Mills, in the city limits of Griffin, about 9 o’clock at night in the month of August, 1908. It was alleged, that the decedent was upon the track of the defendant, and was run upon and over by an engine and train of the defendant running at the rate of 40 miles an hour; that this was a negligent and reckless rate of speed under the circumstances; that the presence of the decedent upon the track was discovered by the engineer for a distance of…
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- Mansfield v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903
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