Bowen v. Smith-Hall Grocery Co.
Bowen v. Smith-Hall Grocery Co.
Opinion of the Court
This case has been to the Supreme Court twice. 141 Ga. 721 (82 S. E. 23, L. R. A. 1915D, 617); 146 Ga. 157 (91 S. E. 32). Bowen brought suit for damages against Smith-Hall Grocery Company, a'• partnership doing business in the city of Dalton. The petition as amended contained, among other allegations, the -following; The defendants’ storehouse and place of ' business fronts on Hamilton street, the principal business street of the city,'upon which at all times' of the day there is a large amount of'travel by pedestrians and vehicles. At the time of the injury complained of there was in force in the city the following ordinance; “The proprietor of each business house must keep a covered garbage-can outside of his place of business, in which must
The evidence did not prove the plaintiff’s ease, as laid, there being no proof that Smith-Hall Grocery Company, by its partners, servants, or agents placed the paper in the street which frightened, the plaintiff’s horses. The court therefore did not err in. granting a nonsuit.
Judgment affirmed.
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