Georgia Railroad v. Hayden

Hall, Justice.

The plaintiff, a theatrical manager, took passage for himself and troupe, consisting in all of seventeen persons, on board the defendant’s train of cars, at Madison, Georgia, *520late at night, for Augusta, which point, according to schedule time, should have been reached early the succeeding morning, in time to have enabled the. plaintiff and his company to have reached Columbia, South Carolina, early in the day, in full time to have given a performance there, according to their engagement, on that night, in accordance with an announcement previously made, and for which performance…