Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Randolph
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Parker. Glynn superior court. July 15, 1905. On January 27, 1905, Mrs. H. B. Bandolph filed a petition against the Seaboard Air-Line Bailway and the Brunswick and Birmingham Bailroad Company,.in which she sought to recover from the defendants damages for the homicide of her husband, which was alleged to have occurred on February 3, 1902, and to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Parker. Glynn superior court. July 15, 1905. On January 27, 1905, Mrs. H. B. Bandolph filed a petition against the Seaboard Air-Line Bailway and the Brunswick and Birmingham Bailroad Company,.in which she sought to recover from the defendants damages for the homicide of her husband, which was alleged to have occurred on February 3, 1902, and to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants. The petition alleged that the plaintiff had previously brought suit against the defendants, which suit was nonsuited by the court, and that the judgment of nonsuit…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, P. J.
1. One ground of the motion to dismiss was, because the return term of the court for the case had adjourned without any service having been perfected upon the Brunswick and. Birmingham Bailroad Company' oí any return by any officer authorized to make service to account for the want of such service. After the court had overruled the motion, the plaintiff amended her petition by striking therefrom the Brunswick and Birmingham Bailroad Company, as a party defendant. She had a perfect right to do this after the court had overruled the motion to dismiss the case upon the ground above indicated.…
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