Cox v. Richmond & Danville Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Actions. Amendment. Railroads. Damages. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. March term, 1891. The declarations of Miss Cox, Mrs. Moseley and Mrs. Perkins each alleged : The Richmond & Danville Railroad Company operates, under a lease or otherwise, the Georgia Pacific Railway Company. About August 27, 1889, petitioner bought a ticket over the Georgia Pacific railroad from Atlanta to Salt Springs and return. ’With her were two of her sisters.
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Actions. Amendment. Railroads. Damages. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. March term, 1891. The declarations of Miss Cox, Mrs. Moseley and Mrs. Perkins each alleged : The Richmond & Danville Railroad Company operates, under a lease or otherwise, the Georgia Pacific Railway Company. About August 27, 1889, petitioner bought a ticket over the Georgia Pacific railroad from Atlanta to Salt Springs and return. ’With her were two of her sisters. She had expected a party of friends to go and return with them ; the party did not go, but she thought she and her sisters could safely go…
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
These cases were argued together. The petitions contained the same allegations, and were dismissed by the court for the same reasous; and the decision in one case will control the others. They were actions for damages for a tort committed upon the plaintiffs by the servants of the railroad 'company in causing them to leave the train at the wrong station.
1. The allegations in the petitions were sufficient to authorize a recovery by the plaintiffs for the actual damages sustained, and for the pain and suffering endured in being left in the woods and in traveling to their homes…
2Cited by1 opinion
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