White v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Reagan. Monroe superior court. October 1, 1904. The plaintiff below, Carrie White, brought an action against the Southern Railway Company to recover damages for the homicide of her son, Titus White, who at the time of his death was nineteen years of age.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Reagan. Monroe superior court. October 1, 1904. The plaintiff below, Carrie White, brought an action against the Southern Railway Company to recover damages for the homicide of her son, Titus White, who at the time of his death was nineteen years of age. The allegations of fact on which the plaintiff relied for a recovery were as follows: On or about January 7,1901, Titus boarded one of the passenger-trains of the defendant company at Dames Ferry, and, after the train started, informed the conductor that he wished to be put off at a place called the coal…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
(After stating the facts.) 1. No harm resulted to the plaintiff from the refusal of the trial judge to allow the amendment to her petition, the allegations of ‘ which needed no amplification. The only new matter sought to be introduced by way of amendment was the assertion that the company owed to her son the duty of providing a safe place at which he could alight; that it failed to observe this duty is not alleged. Even regarding the company’s coal ehute as a regular station at which it received and discharged passengers, its failure to provide a place where passengers could safely alight in…
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