Case Name: ALABAMA MIDLAND RAILWAY CO. v. SWINDELL & CO.
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1903-06-29
Citations: 117 Ga. 883
Docket Number: 
Parties: ALABAMA MIDLAND RAILWAY CO. v. SWINDELL & CO.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 117
Pages: 883–883

Head Matter:
ALABAMA MIDLAND RAILWAY CO. v. SWINDELL & CO.
1. This court has jurisdiction to review the judgments of the city court of Bainbridge upon direct writ of error.
2. Under the ruling made in the case of Southern Railway Go. v. Pace, 114 Ga. 712, and the cases which that decision followed, the evidence in the present case was not sufficient to authorize a verdict for the plaintiff, and a new tidal should have been granted.
Argued June 10,
Decided June 29, 1903.
Action for damages. Before Judge Bower. City court of Bainbridge. December 9, 1902.
Hawes & Hawes and D. H. Pope, for plaintiff in error.
A. L. Townsend and James K. Hines, contra.

Opinion:
Cobb, J.
The motion to dismiss the writ of error must be overruled. Under the ruling in Cooper v. State, 103 Ga. 405, which was followed in Medlock v. Haslett, 115 Ga. 428, the act of November 21,1901 (Acts 1901, p. 94) had the effect to constitute the then existing city court of Bainbridge a constitutional city court.
2. The evidence discloses a case very similar to that which was contained in the record in the case of Southern Railway Co. v. Pace, 114 Ga. 712. That decision was followed in the case of Southern Railway Co. v. Horine, 115 Ga. 664. Under these rulings, the evidence in the present case did not authorize a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and the judge should have granted a new trial.
Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur.