Woodburn v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for penalty. Before Judge Smith. Wilcox superior court. December term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Chief Justice.
This was an action against the telegraph company to recover the penalty for failure to transmit and deliver a dispatch with due diligence, as provided by the act of Oct. 22, 1887, and the amendatory act of December 20, 1892. Pending the action these acts were repealed by the act of December 17, 1894. • The repealing statute makes no provision as to pending suits; and the question now to be determined is, whether the suit abated by reason of this act. We think the case is controlled by the decision of this court in Bank of St. Mary’s v. The State, 12 Ga. 475. That was an…
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