Mitchell v. Georgia Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Actions. Amendments. Damages. Contracts. Railroads. Negligence. Before Judge Lawson. Greene Superior Court. September Adjourned Term, 1881. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Speer, Justice.
The plaintiff in error brought his action against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company for damages. He alleged that plaintiff, in consideration of the sum of thirty dollars, undertook and promised to deliver a certain car-load of hogs, 64 in number, at Union Point, on the Georgia railroad, a'station on said road in Greene county. “But the defendant, unmindful of its obligations, had failed to perform their contract; but so carelessly and negligently *645loaded said hogs, they being sixty-four in number and very large, by packing them on the single floor of one car, whereby they…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Georgia Railroad v. SpearsSupreme Court of Georgia · 1881
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