Hornbuckle v. Plantation Pipe Line Co.

212 Ga. 504 (1956)

93 S.E.2d 727

HORNBUCKLE, by Next Friend,

v.

PLANTATION PIPE LINE COMPANY.

19308.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Argued May 15, 1956.

Decided June 12, 1956.

Rehearing Denied July 11, 1956 and July 24, 1956.

G. Ernest Tidwell, John L. Westmoreland, John L. Westmoreland, Jr., for plaintiff in error.

Moise, Post & Gardner, R. Emerson Gardner, contra.

HAWKINS, Justice.

This case is here on certiorari from the Court of Appeals, excepting to a holding by that court, in Plantation Pipe Line Co. v. Hornbuckle, 93 Ga. App. 391 (91 S. E. 2d 773), that "A born child cannot maintain an action for…