Frazier v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Reese. Taliaferro superior court. February term, 1896.
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
Willie Frazier was killed in 1892, by alleged negligent acts of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. He left surviving him his mother who, it is alleged, was dependent upon him for support. The mother died shortly ' after the son, and had before her death brought no action for his homicide. Alex. Frazier was appointed administrator upon the mother’s estate, and he began an action against the railroad company to recover, for the benefit of the mother’s estate, the value of the son’s life. To the petition the defendant demurred on the ground that no cause of action had survived the mother…
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