Southern Railway Co. v. Morrison
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action, for damages. Before Judge Proffitt. City court of Elberton. August term, 1891. Nathan Morrison, who was a laborer in the employment of A. S. Campbell, was injured by being thrown from a moving car on the Elberton Air-Line Railroad, to which car he was endeavoring to apply the brakes.
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Action, for damages. Before Judge Proffitt. City court of Elberton. August term, 1891. Nathan Morrison, who was a laborer in the employment of A. S. Campbell, was injured by being thrown from a moving car on the Elberton Air-Line Railroad, to which car he was endeavoring to apply the brakes. He contended that this brake was defective in having before been cracked, weakened or broken, so that when he applied to it the force necessary to stop the car, the brake-rod severed and he was thrown from the car under the wheels. He further contended that this defective condition of the brake was…
1Opinion of the CourtLittle, J.
This was an action to recover damages for a tort alleged to have been committed by the plaintiff in error on the person of the defendant in error. In addition to the statement of the case given above, it is only necessary, for the consideration of the principles of law on which we think the decision of the case must rest, to refer to certain portions of the evidence contained in the record. A car-load of lumber consigned to Campbell, which was sold by the latter to the Elberton Planing Mill, was transported by the plaintiff in error over its road to Elberton, and placed on a side-track…
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