Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Perkerson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Nottingham. City court of Macon. November 30, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
Pearl Perkerson brought an action for damages against the Central of Georgia Railway Company, for the homicide of her husband, Marion A. Perkerson. Upon the trial the plaintiff proved that her husband was killed by the running of the defendant’s train; that at the time of his death he was thirty-two years old, and was in the employ of the defendant as a yard conductor or foreman, receiving $65 per.month for his services, which position he had held for about three months; that prior to this he had been for seven or eight years a passenger conductor, in which position he earned from $100 to…
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