Legal Opinion

Georgia Railroad v. Cole

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 18, 1887PublishedCited by 3 opinions

New Trial. Evidence. Verdict. Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Dekalb" Superior Court. September Term, 1886. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Blandford, Justice.

This was a motion for new trial upon the ground alone that tiie verdict was without evidence to support it. This is (he third time this case has been here. It was here last at the March term, 1886, of this court (77 Ga. 77); and we then held that there was sufficient evidence to authorize (he jury to find for either party in the case, the evidence being conflicting. On the last trial of the case, there was but one witness examined who was not examined before— a man named Lanford; and his testimony was merely cumulative of what was proved on the former trial. We think now,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Georgia Railroad v. ColeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1888

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Harden v. Georgia RailroadCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1908
  2. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. WilliamsCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1907
  3. Ausk v. Great Northern Railway Co.North Dakota Supreme Court · 1901

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