Richmond & Danville Railroad v. Jefferson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroad passenger. Police power of conductor. Damages. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. September term, 1891. The plaintiff' sued the railroad company for damages, and obtained a verdict for $1,000. The defendant moved for a new trial, and the motion was overruled.
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Railroad passenger. Police power of conductor. Damages. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. September term, 1891. The plaintiff' sued the railroad company for damages, and obtained a verdict for $1,000. The defendant moved for a new trial, and the motion was overruled. The grounds of the motion were, that the verdict was contrary to evidence, - without evidence to support it, decidedly and strongly against the weight of evidence, showing undue bias and pi’ejudice against the defendant, and for a gi’ossly excessive amount; and that the court erred in charging the jury as to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Gober, Judge.
The official report sets forth the facts. The plaintiff in error complains that the verdict is contrary to law and contrary to evidence; complaint is made, further, that the court erred in giving in charge to the jury the following : “ To this end, our law invests conductors of passenger-trains with all the powers, duties and responsibilities of police officers while on duty on trains. When a person is guilty of disorderly conduct, or uses any obscene, profane or vulgar language in passenger-trains, the conductor may stop the train at the ■ place where the offence is committed,…
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