Southern Railway Co. v. Parker

Bell, Justice.

Certiorari was granted because of confusion as to an important question of jurisdiction, resulting primarily from previous decisions by this court, which under the constitution are binding upon the Court of Appeals as precedents. Code, § 2-3009.

Considering the case first without reference to the Federal employers’ liability act, we see it as one based upon an ordinary transitory cause of action, involving the same principles that were enunciated by this court in Reeves v. Southern Railway Co., 121 Ga. 561 (supra); and the first question for determination is as to the force that…