Peeples v. Brunswick & Albany Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Principal and agent. Railroads. Before Judge Harris. Coffee Superior Court. April Term, 1877. John D. Luke, the plaintiff, having been declared alunatic, Henry B. Peeples, his guardian, was made a party in his stead. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
The plaintiff brought his action against the defendant to recover damages for injuries sustained upon the following alleged statement of facts: that plaintiff was a passenger on defendant’s railroad from Alapaha to Waycross, having paid his full fare to the conductor of defendant’s railroad train from Alapaha to Waycross on defendant’s road, and being in the place assigned him as such passenger in defendant’s passenger coach, and whilst in the care and keeping of said defendant’s railroad company, and its said conductor, he was, at Pearson, a station on said road between…
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