Hartford Fire Insurance v. Payne
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Petition for certiorari; from Pike superior court — Judge Searcy. November 4, 1921. ' From the petition for certiorari it appears that, as assignee of the right of action of the owner of certain cotton alleged to have been destroyed by fire thrown out of a locomotive, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company brought suit in a justice’s court against the Federal director-general of railroads; and the justice sustained a demurrer based on the grounds that no cause of action was…
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Petition for certiorari; from Pike superior court — Judge Searcy. November 4, 1921. ' From the petition for certiorari it appears that, as assignee of the right of action of the owner of certain cotton alleged to have been destroyed by fire thrown out of a locomotive, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company brought suit in a justice’s court against the Federal director-general of railroads; and the justice sustained a demurrer based on the grounds that no cause of action was stated in the plaintiff’s petition, and that it appeared from the petition that the cotton was at the time of the damage…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
The Hartford Fire Insurance Company brought suit in a justice’s court in Pike county, filing a formal petition against the Federal director-general of railroads, alleging in part: “ Your petitioner shows that it is the assignee of a right of action, involving only property rights, of one E. L. Hooten, owner of certain cotton insured by plaintiff and destroyed by fire through the negligence of the defendant herein, plaintiff having paid to said E. L. Hooten damages herein named, and having been subrogated by written assignment by said E. L. Hooten to all rights, claims, interest, choses or…
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