Legal Opinion

Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Knight

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 4, 1905PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Certiorari. Before Judge Lumpkin. Eulton superior court. May 18, 1904.

1Opinion of the CourtCandlek, J.

1. The defendant company had the right to be put on notice of the specific acts of negligence by reason of which it was charged that the plaintiff had been damaged. But a suit in a justice’s court which in general terms alleged negligence was good against an oral demurrer made after trial before the justice and at the trial upon an appeal to a jury in the justice’s court.

2. The answer of the magistrate does not show what objection was made to the evidence the admission of which is assigned as error. Even if this were not so, the evidence was as to a matter about which there was no dispute,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Gunn v. WoodSupreme Court of Georgia · 1896

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Lynch v. Southern Express Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1916
  2. South Georgia Railway Co. v. RyalsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  3. Albaugh Bros. Dover Co. v. WhiteSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1910
  4. South Georgia Railway Co. v. AtkinsCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913

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