Brown v. Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Hutchins. Clarke superior court. January 14, 1896. An action for damages from personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff at Athens, Ga., January 20,1894, by reason of the negligence of the defendants in the running of their train, was brought in the superior court of Clarke county by Samuel Brown against the Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway Company, the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad Company, and the Raleigh & Gaston…
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Action for damages. Before Judge Hutchins. Clarke superior court. January 14, 1896. An action for damages from personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff at Athens, Ga., January 20,1894, by reason of the negligence of the defendants in the running of their train, was brought in the superior court of Clarke county by Samuel Brown against the Georgia, Carolina & Northern Railway Company, the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad Company, and the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Company, the two companies last mentioned being sued as lessees of the one first mentioned. The defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
The official report states the facts. Unless the plaintiffs in error were entitled, under paragraph 2 of *83section 2814 of the Civil Code, to a lien upon the original cause of action, which was the basis of the suit instituted by them in the first instance, they were not authorized in their own names to prosecute the second action which they instituted subsequently to the compromise effected by their client upon his own behalf with the defendant. That paragraph of the section above quoted provides, that-upon suits, judgments and decrees for money, attorneys at law shall have a lien superior to…
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