Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis Railway Co. v. Edwards

Edwards sued tbe Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company for damages from personal injuries, alleging, among other things, that defendant operated as lessee the Western & Atlantic Railroad, and plaintiff was in its employment at the time in question as engineer on a freight-train. At the close of the evidence for plaintiff, defendant’s counsel moved for a nonsuit upon the ground that plaintiff had sued the wrong cor*26poration; that the suit should have been brought against the Western & Atlantic Railroad Company, the name which the law of Georgia authorizing the lease provided it…