Case ID: ga_111/html/0868-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lewis, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad Co. et al. v. Spencer, adm’x.
    Argued July 21,—
    Decided August 8, 1900.
    Action for damages. Before Judge Proffitt. City court of Elberton. November term, 1899.
    
      Erwin & Brown and II. J. Brewer, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Hoke Smith & H. C. Peeples and A. G. McCurry, contra.
   Lewis, J.

The evidence showing that the plaintiff’s injuries resulted from a pure accident, and not from any act of negligence chargeable to the defendants, the verdict in his favor can not be lawfully upheld, and the' court erred in not setting it aside.

Judgment reversed,.

All the Justices concurring.