Vischer v. Talbotton Branch Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity. In Talbot Superior Court. Bill for Discovery and Relief. Tried before Geobge A. Hall, an Attorney at Law, selected by the parties.
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In Equity. In Talbot Superior Court. Bill for Discovery and Relief. Tried before Geobge A. Hall, an Attorney at Law, selected by the parties. March Term, 1861. The bill alleged that in November, 1852, the defendants in error contracted with the plaintiffs in error, that the latter should do the work of grading, etc., on the Talbotton Branch Railroad at the prices fixed by certain sealed proposals sent in by the plaintiffs in response to an advertisement published by the defendants, inviting such proposals. That the plaintiffs expended money in the hire of hands, the purchase of animals and…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
We do not propose to examine severally the various errors alleged in this chaotic, and unnecessarily voluminous record. We have carefully considered all of them, and will announce the general conclusions to which we have come.
[1.] Complainants notified defendant to produce, to be used as evidence, the book of minuteshrept by defendant, of its proceedings. The book was produced, and complainants read various portions of it to the jury'; in one or two instances reading only a portion of the action of the board of directors as there recorded, although other portions of the proceedings of the…
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