Paramore v. Western Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Before Judge James Johnson. Muscogee Superior Court. November Term, 1873. Suit was instituted by Paramore in the justice court of the seven hundred and seventy-third district against the Western Railroad Company for $89 28, damages done to a lot of liogs in the transportation of the same to the city of Columbus. The case was carried by appeal to the superior court.
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Railroads. Before Judge James Johnson. Muscogee Superior Court. November Term, 1873. Suit was instituted by Paramore in the justice court of the seven hundred and seventy-third district against the Western Railroad Company for $89 28, damages done to a lot of liogs in the transportation of the same to the city of Columbus. The case was carried by appeal to the superior court. The evidence presented the following facts : The hogs were shipped from the town of Normandy, in the state of Tennessee, to the plaintiff, at the city of Columbus, in the state of Georgia. Eifty-two were placed in one…
1Opinion of the Court
Tbippe, Judge.
There is no proof as to what time the hogs died from suffocation. . It is stated by the witnesses that they were placed on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad in cars which were too small and close, and that they were received in the same cars by the defendant, and carried in them without examination to Columbus, where several were found to be dead, and it was thought that this resulted from their being too closely confined. Now, if the hogs had been suffocated whilst they were being transported by the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, then it would not only have appeared who*…
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