Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Moore
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Savannah — Judge Freeman. November 1, 1909. Willie Moore, by his next friend, brought suit against the railroad company for damages on account of personal injuries.
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Action for damages; from city court of Savannah — Judge Freeman. November 1, 1909. Willie Moore, by his next friend, brought suit against the railroad company for damages on account of personal injuries. He claimed that while he was crossing Henry street in the city of Savannah, late at night, some freight cars were standing on the tracks of the railroad, just on the edge of the crossing, without any light on them, and that when he was opposite the end of one of the cars, an engine or train of the defendant struck the other end without any warning or signals, and knocked the car suddenly on…
1Opinion of the Court
Eüssell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) So far as the general grounds of the motion are concerned, it can not be said that the verdict is without evidence to support it. . A consideration of each of the exceptions to the charge of the court, in connection with the charge as a whole, as it appears in the record, and a careful examination of the brief of evidence, convinces us that the charge contains no error which requires a grant of a new trial. The several exceptions which we have quoted furnish an illustration of the fact that when only segregated excerpts of a charge" are…
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