Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Usry
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Negligence. New trial. Practice in superior court. Before Judge Roney. McDuffie superior court. September term, 1887. Erancis M. Usry and Ms wife, Mary E., sued the railroad company for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the latter by the negligence of the company.
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Railroads. Negligence. New trial. Practice in superior court. Before Judge Roney. McDuffie superior court. September term, 1887. Erancis M. Usry and Ms wife, Mary E., sued the railroad company for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the latter by the negligence of the company. On the trial, Mrs. Usry testified as follows : Received the injuries while leaving a car of defendant at Dealing, one of its stations, where its trains regularly stopped, on August 24,1885. Was returning from Thomson to Bearing as a passenger, on the regular day passenger-train. The train…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1, 2. Mrs. TJsry, in alighting from a regular passenger-train at a regular station, being slightly advanced in pregnancy, was injured so that miscarriage ensued, and serious illness followed. She obtained a verdict against the company for $1,000, and the superior court refused a new trial. The sole ground of the motion insisted on in the bill of exceptions, and argued here, is that the verdict was contrary to the charge of the court touching the duty to observe and the effect of omitting ordinary care, on the part of Mrs. TJsry herself, at and immediately after the…
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