Scott v. Central Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in Supreme Court. Railroads. Parent and Child. Damages. Actions. Before Judge Carswell. Washington Superior Court. March Term, 1886. Cornelia Williams and other minor children of. Ann Williams, deceased, by their next friend, Edmund Scott, brought suit against the Central Railroad to recover for the homicide of their mother.
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Practice in Supreme Court. Railroads. Parent and Child. Damages. Actions. Before Judge Carswell. Washington Superior Court. March Term, 1886. Cornelia Williams and other minor children of. Ann Williams, deceased, by their next friend, Edmund Scott, brought suit against the Central Railroad to recover for the homicide of their mother. The declaration alleged that their father was living at the time of the homicide, and was still, but that the mother, during her lifetime, furnished shelter and clothes for them; that they were abandoned by their father almost entirely, both before and since the…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
1. A motion was.made to dismiss this writ of error on the ground that there is no legal certificate made thereon by the presiding judge.
The facts appear to be that on April 29th, 1886, the j udge certified to but. one ground of error, stating that on April 17th he had .first received the prepared bill of exceptions, but had returned it for correction to counsel who had prepared it. It came to him again, and he .certified only to the one ground.
*452On the 11th of June, 1886, the judge made another certificate on the bill of exceptions, in which he seems to have corrected the…
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