Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Roberts
Supreme Court of Georgia
Before Judge Guerry. Quitman superior court. March, term, 1892. Roberts sued the railroad company for wrongful expulsion from its passenger-train. He .recovered a verdict for $150, and the defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled.
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Before Judge Guerry. Quitman superior court. March, term, 1892. Roberts sued the railroad company for wrongful expulsion from its passenger-train. He .recovered a verdict for $150, and the defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled. According to the evidence for the" plaintiff’, he bought of the defendant’s agent a Sunday excursion ticket from Hatcher’s station to Eufaula, with a return coupon attached, stating to the agent that he wished to return that night by a particular train known as the Cannon Ball, and that if he could not return on. that train he did not want the ticket;…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. Marriage will relate the husband by affinity to the wife’s blood relations, but will not relate the husband’s *517brother to any of her relations. The husband of the juror’s step-daughter was not related to the juror, but only to the juror’s wife. The husband’s brother, the ■plaintiff, was further off still; he was not related even to the juror’s wife.
The groom and bride each comes within
The circle of the other’s kin;
But kin and kin are still no more
Belated than they were before.
2. The agent who sold the Sunday excursion ticket represented the company in making the…
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