Macon & Western Railroad v. Davis
Supreme Court of Georgia
Case, in Bibb Superior Court. Tried before Judge Lamar, at November Term, .§58. This was an action by James M. Davis, as administrator of Willis Boon, deceased, against the Macon and Western Railroad Company, to recover the value of a negro man slave and a carriage. The slave killed, and the carriage destroyed by the cars, running on defendant’s railroad. All the facts necessary to a full understanding of the points adjudicated, are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald, J.
delivering the opinion.
James M. Davis, as administrator on the estate of Willis Boon, deceased, instituted an action in the Superior Court of Bibb county, against the plaintiff in error, for the recovery of damages, for the destruction of a rockaway carriage, and killing a negro man slave, the property of his intestate, by the conducting and running the engine and cars of said plaintiff in error, forcibly and illegally against and upon and over the said carriage and slave.
On the trial of the cause, the jury rendered a verdict in favor of the defendant in error,…
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