Waxelbaum Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages, from city court of Albany — Judge Crosland. June 8, 1907. Waxelbaum Company brought a suit for the recovery'of damages, against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.. The case proceeded to trial before a jury, and a large amount of testimony was adduced in behalf of both parties.
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Action for damages, from city court of Albany — Judge Crosland. June 8, 1907. Waxelbaum Company brought a suit for the recovery'of damages, against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company.. The case proceeded to trial before a jury, and a large amount of testimony was adduced in behalf of both parties. The testimony in behalf of the plaintiff tended to establish the liability of the defendant for the non-delivery of a certain box of goods marked M, and testimony in behalf of the defendant tended to show the delivery of the boxes in question to the consignee. On behalf of the defendant,…
1Opinion of the CourtEussell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Applications for continuances are addressed to the* sound legal discretion of the trial judge, and that discretion will not be interfered with unless it is abused. The defendant objected strongly to the temporary continuance from May 24 to June 8, which was granted by 'the court for the purpose of enabling the plaintiff to see if it could find evidence sufficient to overcome that adduced by the defendant, but it did not preserve its exceptions by excepting, and consequently this ruling is not before us for review. While we are not required to rule that the…
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