Phillips v. Dewald
Supreme Court of Georgia
Negligence. Presumptions. Damages. Evidence. Practice in Supreme Court. Before Judge Van Epps. City Court of Atlanta. March Term, 1887. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
In an action for a personal injury resulting from being run oyer by a horse, Dewald obtained a verdict against Phillips for $500; and the court refusing to grant a new trial, Phillips excepted. Several grounds were embraced in the motion for a new trial, but all of them were waived except those involving the sufficiency of the evidence, and one other which questions the admissibility of certain testimony.
The horse, while in harness and attached to a buggy, was left standing in the street at the corner of Alabama and Broad streets, in the city of Atlanta. Phillips, the…
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