Legal Opinion
Central Railroad v. Roach
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided August 27, 1883PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Railroads. Damages. Negligence. Master and Servant. Practice in Supreme Court. Res adjudicata. Before Judge Tompkins. Chatham Superior Court. June Term, 1882. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
On July 23d, 1878, the plaintiff filed her declaration in the superior court of Chatham county against the defendant, claiming damages for the death of her husband, who was killed by an injury received while in the employment of the defendant as a locomotive engineer.
The declaration set forth that,
“ On the night of the twenty-seventh day of January, in the year *436of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, the said The Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia, a corporation as aforesaid, by the negligence, carelessness and unskillfulness of itself, its agents,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Western & Atlantic Railroad v. StrongSupreme Court of Georgia · 1874
- Daly v. StoddardSupreme Court of Georgia · 1880
3Cited by4 opinions
- Allen v. Augusta FactorySupreme Court of Georgia · 1888
- Owens v. WaySupreme Court of Georgia · 1914
- Myrick v. HeardU.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia · 1887
- Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. CassinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900