Southern Bell Telephone Co. v. Lynch
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Westmoreland. City coui’t of Atlanta. March, term, 1894. Maggie Lynch sued the telephone company for damages claimed to have resulted from being tripped up by a wire and thrown upon the street pavement. She obtained a verdict for $700, and the defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Westmoreland. City coui’t of Atlanta. March, term, 1894. Maggie Lynch sued the telephone company for damages claimed to have resulted from being tripped up by a wire and thrown upon the street pavement. She obtained a verdict for $700, and the defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled. The declaration alleged, that plaintiff resided on Wheat street in the city of Atlanta, and on December 31,1892, about nine o’clock at night, started to go from her home across that street to a store. She had not gone far when she became entangled in the coil of a wire…
1Opinion of the Court
*530 Judgment affirmed.
The motion for a new tidal contains the grounds that the verdict is contrary to law and evidence, and a ground of newly discovered evidence. Also, that the court erred in overruling a motion for nonsuit, on the ground that plaintiff had failed to prove that defendant was negligent, and that the proof varied from the allegations in such manner as to prevent a recovery. Also, that the court refused to charge, upon oral request made in argument, that plaintiff" could not recover for any injury to her sexual organs. (The court certified that there was no written request to…
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