Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Davis
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Thomasville—Judge W. H. Hammond. June 22, 1912. Davis brought suit against the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, the City of Thomasville, and McCarty and Wood as employees of the telephone company, to recover damages for personal injuries, alleging, in substance, as follows: The Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company is a corporation, owning and operating in the City of Thomasville a general telephone business, with an…
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Action for damages; from city court of Thomasville—Judge W. H. Hammond. June 22, 1912. Davis brought suit against the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, the City of Thomasville, and McCarty and Wood as employees of the telephone company, to recover damages for personal injuries, alleging, in substance, as follows: The Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company is a corporation, owning and operating in the City of Thomasville a general telephone business, with an agency and office in said city. The City of Thomasville is a municipal corporation, situated in the County of Thomas,…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, C. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
All the foregoing questions raised by the record are ably and elaborately presented to this court bjr counsel for the plaintiff in error, and they are entitled to a decision on each of the. questions submitted.
1, 2. The allegations of the petition, in- the opinion of this court, clearly show a cause of action against the defendants, jointly and severalty, and there was no error in overruling the demurrer. The allegations, so far as the telephone company is concerned, bring it squarely within the principle laid down by the Supreme Court in Southern Bell…
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