Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Oaks
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Constitutional law. Venue. Husband and wife. Damages. Evidence. Witness. Before Judge Bartlett. Greene Superior Court. September Term, 1873. Fannie V. Oaks brought ease against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, a body corporate located in the county of Richmond, claiining $20,000 00 damages for the homicide of her husband.
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Railroads. Constitutional law. Venue. Husband and wife. Damages. Evidence. Witness. Before Judge Bartlett. Greene Superior Court. September Term, 1873. Fannie V. Oaks brought ease against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, a body corporate located in the county of Richmond, claiining $20,000 00 damages for the homicide of her husband. The declaration stated that on March 21st, 1871, William R. Oaks, the husband of the plaintiff, was in the employ of the defendant as an engineer, and in charge of a freight train running from the city of Atlanta to the city of Augusta; that as said train…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
1. The Code was adopted as the law of the state upon the matters included in it, by the legislature, on the 19th of December, 1860, to take effect on the 1st of January, 1862, which date was afterwards changed to 1st January, 1863, when it became the law of the state. Subsequently, by the convention of 1865, and again by the convention of 1868, it was ratified and made the law of the state, (subject to alteration by the general assembly,) and it was declared, in effect, to supersede all previous legislation inconsistent with it. The result is, that any legislation previously to…
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