Southern Railway Co. v. Bailey
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Daniel. Henry superior court. April 20, 1914. Tbc petition and the amendment thereto alleged that on the 6th of December, 1912, the plaintiff purchased of the ticket-agent of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company, at Danville, Kentucky, a ticket entitling her to first-class passage from that place over the lines of that company to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and from there over the line of the Southern Railway Company to…
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Action for damages. Before Judge Daniel. Henry superior court. April 20, 1914. Tbc petition and the amendment thereto alleged that on the 6th of December, 1912, the plaintiff purchased of the ticket-agent of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company, at Danville, Kentucky, a ticket entitling her to first-class passage from that place over the lines of that company to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and from there over the line of the Southern Railway Company to Jenkinsburg, Georgia. “After purchasing said ticket, petitioner boarded a train at Danville, Kentucky, at about eleven…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) This is an action ex delicto for an alleged breach of duty owed by defendant to plaintiff, who was a passenger on defendant’s train, occasioned by the wrongful expulsion of plaintiff from defendant’s car by one of its agents. Hnder the view we take of the case, we shall only deal with the question raised by the petition and the general demurrer. The plaintiff boarded as a passenger a through train of a connecting carrier of defendant at a place in another State, for transportation to a point of destination situate within this State on defendant’s line of…
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- Head v. Georgia Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1887
- Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railroad v. BillsIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, & St. Louis Railway Co. v. NuzumIndiana Supreme Court · 1874
- Sira v. Wabash RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. MotesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1903
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