Central Railroad v. Brunson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction. Evidence. Railroads. New trial. Before Judge Simmons. Houston Superior Court. May Term, 1879. Brunson brought two suits against the Central Railroad in Houston county court for about $150.00. He alleged that in the months of September, October, November and December, 1877, he had delivered to the company at Perry, Ga., one hundred and ninety-three bales of cotton to be transported to Macon, and delivered to Campbell & Jones, and Saulsbury, Respess & Co.; that…
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Jurisdiction. Evidence. Railroads. New trial. Before Judge Simmons. Houston Superior Court. May Term, 1879. Brunson brought two suits against the Central Railroad in Houston county court for about $150.00. He alleged that in the months of September, October, November and December, 1877, he had delivered to the company at Perry, Ga., one hundred and ninety-three bales of cotton to be transported to Macon, and delivered to Campbell & Jones, and Saulsbury, Respess & Co.; that the company failed to deliver something over sixteen hundred pounds of this cotton, and that demand for payment had been…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
1. We think that the superior court of Houston county had jurisdiction to try this case. It was a case which arose against the company for failure to deliver cotton committed to it as a' carrier at Perry, in Houston county, and to be transported thence to another point. The contract was there made and the bailment there began, and the damage may have there been done by the failure of the company to ship it. 54 Ga., 251.
(2. 3.) Under the issue for trial, we think that the court erred in admitting testimony that other people’s cotton had been stolen by agents of the company at…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. CarswellSupreme Court of Georgia · 1875
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