Fuller v. Inman
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Atlanta — Judge Eeid.. The suit was for the alleged wrongful homicide of the plaintiff’s son by the defendant. The petition was as follows : “Georgia, Fulton County.
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Action for damages; from city court of Atlanta — Judge Eeid.. The suit was for the alleged wrongful homicide of the plaintiff’s son by the defendant. The petition was as follows : “Georgia, Fulton County. To the City Court of Atlanta: “The petition of Mrs. M. C. Fuller shows the following facts: 1,. The defendant is Miss Jennie Inman. 2. Defendant is a resident of said State and county. 3. Defendant has damaged petitioner in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, by reason of the following facts. 4. On or about the 26th of March, 1911, petitioner’s son, James Dewey Fuller, was killed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtPottle, J.
1. It was a settled doctrine of the common law that no one could maintain a civil action for damages on account of the death of a human being. To remedy this hardship, Lord Campbell, in 1846, introduced in the British Parliament an act to authorize the recovery of damages in cases of the wrongful homicide of a person. This act, which is known in history as Lord Campbell’s act, is the basis for statutes which have been adopted in practically all the States of the American Union. The first act passed on the subject in Georgia was the act approved February 23, 1850, which provided, in substance,…
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