Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern Railway Co. v. Smith

This was an action for damages on account of a homicide which occurred in the State of Tennessee. The plaintiff, who was the widow of the deceased, brings the suit as administratrix of his estate. The defendant is a railway corporation of this State. The defendant filed various special demurrers to different parts of the petition. The demurrers were overruled, and it excepted.

1. It was insisted that the petition as a whole was defective, because it did not set forth the alleged cause of action in orderly and distinct paragraphs numbered consecutively, and that one of the paragraphs was…