Case ID: ga_102/html/0577-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Shaw v. Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
    Argued June 12,
    Decided July 10, 1897.
    Action for damages. Before Judge Candler. Newton superior court. September term, 1896.
    
      E. W. Martin and E. F. Edwards, for plaintiff.
    
      Joseph B. & Bryan Gumming and J. M. Pace, for defendant.
   Simmons, C. J.

Without reference to any error of law alleged to have been committed upon the trial, the evidence convicts the deceased of gross negligence and acquits the defendant company of negligence; and the verdict of the jury, being in accord therewith, will not be disturbed.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring, except Msh, J., disqualified.