Metropolitan St. R. R. v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Before Judge Yan Epps. City court of Atlanta, December term, 1891. Johnson sued the railroad company for damages for loss of services of his wife, and expenses for physician’s-bill and medicines, growing out of an injury which she sustained by the running of defendant’s locomotive and ears.
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Before Judge Yan Epps. City court of Atlanta, December term, 1891. Johnson sued the railroad company for damages for loss of services of his wife, and expenses for physician’s-bill and medicines, growing out of an injury which she sustained by the running of defendant’s locomotive and ears. The testimony for plaintiff" as to the injury to-his wife and the expenses was at first restricted by the court to the filing of the suit, but after amendment of the declaration testimony was allowed as to the injury and expenses up to the trial. There was no evidence of the value of Mrs. Johnson’s…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. The court made no direct ruling as to whether the question objected to as leading was or was not so, but. suggested what the presiding judge deemed a better form of question. This suggestion was adopted by •counsel, and the question, in its original form, was not pressed. Surely no cause for a new trial can be found in this.
2. In trying the question of negligence by the company, or by its engineer, relatively to Mrs. Johnson on the particular occasion in controversy, and incidentally the question of her contributory negligence, it was not competent evidence to show…
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