Stiles v. Atlanta & West Point Railroad

Hawkins, Justice.

C. A. Stiles brought his action for damages against the defendant, the Atlanta and West Point Railroad Company, in Troup county, on the twenty-seventh day of October, 1879. He claimed $15,000.00 damages, and alleged in his declaration that on the twenty-second day of August, 1879, at the depot of defendant, in LaGrañge, Georgia, in said county, he bought a ticket for his wife and child, only four years old, to be conveyed to the city of Atlanta and return on said day. He put his wife and child aboard said train, and was then informed by the officers in charge of the same,…