Case Name: Southern Railway Company v. Hobbs
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1904-12-10
Citations: 121 Ga. 428
Docket Number: 
Parties: Southern Railway Company v. Hobbs.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 121
Pages: 428–428

Head Matter:
Southern Railway Company v. Hobbs.
Submitted November 18, —
Decided December 10, 1904.
Action for damages. Before Judge Bartlett. Haralson superior court. August 13, 1904.
Hugh M. Dorsey, for plaintiff in error.
Price Edwards and James Beall, contra.

Opinion:
Evans, J.
1. The testimony of a party who offers himself as a witness in his own behalf is to be construed most strongly against him when.it is self-contradictory, vague, or equivocal. W. & A. R. Co. v. Evans, 96 Ga. 481; Freyermuth v. R. Co., 107 Ga. 32 ; Ray v. Green, 113 Ga. 920 ; Farmer v. Davenport, 118 Ga. 289. And he " is not entitled to a finding in his favor if that version of his testimony the most unfavorable to him shows that the verdict should be against him." Southern Bank v. Goette, 108 Ga. 796.
2. Applying the rule above stated to the testimony of the plaintiff in the present case, what she swore on the last trial was not materially different from the version she gave of the occurrence under investigation at the trial under review when the case was here at the March term, 1903 (118 Ga. 227) ; and as was then pointed out, she was not, in view of her own sworn admissions, entitled to a recovery. . Judgment reversed.
All the Justices concur.