Henderson v. Dade Coal Co.

Lumpkin, Presiding Justice.

The declaration now under review discloses one of the very saddest cases with which it has ever been our fortune to deal. The plaintiff, Miss Maggie Henderson, was at the hands of a brutal convict subjected to injury, wrong and agony, both mental and physical, a recital of which would make one of the darkest pages in our reports. Every member of this bench was deeply moved and affected by the account Avhich the declaration gives of her blighted life. There is not, perhaps, in the annals of litigation a story of Avrong which appeals more pathetically for human…