Miller v. Smythe
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Eve. City court of Richmond county. August term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Chief Justice.
This was an action by a tenant against a landlord for the recovery of damages occasioned to goods by the falling of shelves in a store, which it was alleged the defendant had negligently failed and refused to repair. The case was formerly before this court on exceptions to the overruling of a demurrer to the declaration. (See the report, 92 Ga. 155.) The trial of the case resulted *290in a vedict for the plaintiff; a new trial was refused, and the defendant excepted.
1. There was evidence that for some months previous to the falling of the shelves, the top of the shelving…
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