Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Skipper
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Burch. City court of Dublin. February 13, 1905. Skipper brought an action against the Southern Cotton Oil Company to recover damages for a personal injury. A verdict for $2,500 was rendered iii his favor. The defendant moved for a new trial, which was refused, and it excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) In one respect this ease brings to mind the words of Juvenal: “Bara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno.” Its quality of rarity consists in the fact that counsel for both sides concur in the opinion that the trial judge erred in giving to the-jury a particular charge, and that a new trial should be granted. In this unusually harmonious view *371we concur with them. Thus is furnished the spectacle (more rare indeed than a black swan) of a court of last resort being able to render'a judgment which, as to one point at least, meets the concurrent views of…
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- Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad v. PutnamSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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- Hill v. CallahanSupreme Court of Georgia · 1889
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