Rankin v. Merchants & Miners' Transportation Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Master and Servant. Homicide. Damages. Actions. Stevedores. Principal and Agents. Pleadings. Before Judge Harden. City Court of Savannah. February Term, 1884. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
A motion was made to dismiss this declaration, on the ground that no cause of action is set out therein; in other words, on general demurrer, the action was dismissed. It is a suit by the wife for her husband’s homicide against “ the Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company,” and Merritt W. Dixon, a stevedore in the employment and pay of that company ; and the death occurred by reason of the loading of a ship of the company by the stevedore and his servants.
1. The question is, whether the case falls within Daly vs. Stoddard, 66 Ga., 145, and McDonald vs. The Eagle &…
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- McDonald v. Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1882
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