Supreme Court of Georgia, 1899

Frazier v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.

Frazier v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia · Decided July 27, 1899 · Lumpkin
108 Ga. 807; 33 S.E. 996; 1899 Ga. LEXIS 453

Frazier v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.

Opinion of the Court

Lumpkin, P. J.

1. When a plaintiff’s right to recover depended upon the establishment of a particular fact, and the only proof offered for this purpose was circumstantial evidence from which the existence of such fact might be inferred, but which did not demand a finding to that effect, a recovery by the plaintiff was not lawful, when, by the positive and uncontradicted testimony of unimpeached witnesses, which was perfectly consistent with the circumstantial evidence relied on by the plaintiff, it was affirmatively shown that no such fact existed.

2. It results from an application of the above to the evidence appearing in the record of the present case that the judgment excepted to was right.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.

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