Savannah, Florida & Western Railway Co. v. Holland
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Re's gestee. Witness.- Charge of court. Principal and agent. Attorney and client. Damages. • Before Judge. Bower. Mitchell superior court.
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Railroads. Re's gestee. Witness.- Charge of court. Principal and agent. Attorney and client. Damages. • Before Judge. Bower. Mitchell superior court. November term, 1887. Thomas E. Holland sued the railway company for $10,000 damages, alleging,- in brief, that he was a passenger on its train, going from Valdosta to Camilla, at ■ night; that its servants negligently failed to notify him of the arrival of the train at Camilla, and he was ignorant when it did arrive there; that soon after passing that town, he discovered that he was being carried beyond his destination, and'when the train-was…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. The plaintiff below, Holland, being a passenger upon the train, was carried past the station at which he wished to stop. Piscovering the fact, he requested the conductor to let him off, and a vital question.in the case was whether he alighted safely and .received his injury afterwards, by falling through a trestle.on his way back to the station, or whether he fell through.the.tr.estlefin *267alighting, by reason of being forced or. pushed off at that point by the conductor. There is no doubt but that he was seriously injured by his fall, his leg being broken. No one…
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