Owens v. Nichols
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before D. W. Blair, judge pro hae vice. Cobb superior court. December 9, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
In an action for damages flowing from an injury to tbe plaintiff’s propertj', tlie petition alleged that the defendant held himself out to the public as skilled in a particular business in which he was engaged. In the course of such business he received the plaintiff’s property and undertook to deal with it in a manner beneficial to the plaintiff, but not injurious to the property. After receiving the property the defendant undertook to perform the dutjr, but it was in a negligent and unskillful manner, and thereby caused the injury. The defendant denied the material allegations of the…
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