King v. Southern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Kimsey. Habersham superior court. September 9, 1905. Mrs. Josephine King brought suit against the Southern Railway Company, seeking.to recover damages on account of a personal injury to lier daughter fourteen years of age.
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Action for damages. Before Judge Kimsey. Habersham superior court. September 9, 1905. Mrs. Josephine King brought suit against the Southern Railway Company, seeking.to recover damages on account of a personal injury to lier daughter fourteen years of age. It was alleged, that the plaintiff, her husband, and her daughter were traveling on a public road' in a buggy, and while crossing the railroad of the defendant they were struck and injured by its locomotive and ears; that the defendant’s agents were negligent in running the train at a speed of from forty to sixty miles an hour, in failing to…
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
(After stating the facts.)
1. The exact question made is, where a father, mother, and minor daughter were in a buggy passing over a rhilroad crossing, and the father and daughter were injured by the running of a train, and the father died about an hour afterwards, did the mother have a right of action against the railroad company on account of the injury to the minor daughter? The suit was not brought by the daughter for permanent injuries to herself, or by the mother as her next friend, but by the latter in her own behalf, based on loss of services and necessary expenses prior to the arrival…
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