Pidcock v. Stripling

A. M. Stripling sued C. W. Pidcoek Jr., in a justice’s court, as receiver of the Georgia, Southwestern and Gulf Railroad, for the loss of three hogs allegedly destroyed by the negligent operation of a train of the railroad company. The summons alleged that the Georgia, Southwestern and Gulf Railroad Company was a railway corporation of Georgia with an office and agent in the district wherein the suit was filed, and was operated under a receivership in the superior court of Dougherty County, Georgia, and that the defendant, on October 16, 1940, while running its train from Cordele to Albany,…