Case ID: ga_131/html/0784-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Atkinson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Western & Atlantic Railroad Company v. Blackford by next friend.
    Argued June 19, 1908.
    Decided January 13, 1909.
    Action for damages. Before Judge Fite. Catoosa superior court. October 25, 1907.
   Atkinson, J.

1. When several plaintiffs sue jointly, the petition may be amended by striking the name of one or more of them who are not proper parties. Civil Code, §5105; Smith v. Hanie, 74 Ga. 324.

2. The evidence was sufficient to Support the verdict.

3. Other grounds of the motion for new trial not referred to in the brief of counsel for plaintiff in error are treated as abandoned.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur except Fish, O. J., absent.

Tye, Peeples, Bryan & Jordan and R. J. & J. McGamy, for plaintiff in error.

William B. Mann and Payne & Payne, contra..