Central Railroad v. Wolff
Supreme Court of Georgia
Evidence. Interrogatories. Railroads. Witness. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. April Term, 1884. Mrs. Bertha Wolff brought suit against the Central Railroad to recover for a spoliation of baggage. Defendant pleaded the general issue. On the trial, the evidence for the plaintiff was, in brief, as follows: She packed her trunks in New York and purchased a coupon ticken to Macon, Georgia, via the Piedmont Air-Line, checking her baggage through to her destination.
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Evidence. Interrogatories. Railroads. Witness. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. April Term, 1884. Mrs. Bertha Wolff brought suit against the Central Railroad to recover for a spoliation of baggage. Defendant pleaded the general issue. On the trial, the evidence for the plaintiff was, in brief, as follows: She packed her trunks in New York and purchased a coupon ticken to Macon, Georgia, via the Piedmont Air-Line, checking her baggage through to her destination. From Atlanta to Macon -she went by the defendant’s road. On her arrival and the delivery of her trunks, she found them…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The plaintiff in error moved the court for a new trial on several grounds, which was refused, and this refusal is assigned as error,
1. The first assignment of error is that the court erred in allowing plaintiff to establish a copy of the answers of a witness to interrogatories, which-were lost, and also in allowing reference to a copy of bill of exceptions, of file in the clerk’s office of the court, wherein the lost answers were set out.
Interrogatories, after the commission has issued,, and has been executed and returned, are office papers. Code, section 3889., Office…
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