Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Mims, 14098.
| Court | United States Courts of Appeals. United States Court of Appeals (5th Circuit) |
| Citation | 199 F.2d 582 |
| Docket Number | No. 14098.,14098. |
| Parties | ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO. v. MIMS et al. |
| Decision Date | 12 December 1952 |
199 F.2d 582 (1952)
ATLANTIC COAST LINE R. CO.
v.
MIMS et al.
No. 14098.
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.
November 4, 1952.
Rehearing Denied December 12, 1952.
Ralph R. Quillian, Atlanta, Ga., R. A. Moore, Douglas, Ga., Douglas W. Mathews, Atlanta, Ga., for appellant.
David C. Sapp, Douglas, Ga., E. O. Blalock, Waycross, Ga., Elie L. Holton, Douglas, Ga., for appellees.
Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and HOLMES and RUSSELL, Circuit Judges.
HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.
Brought under the Georgia homicide statutes, Sections 105-1302 and 105-1306 of the Annotated Code, for damages for the death of plaintiffs' parents, caused by the negligence of defendant, the suit was for the full value of their lives.
The claim was that while attempting to cross a railroad track belonging to defendant, the truck in which plaintiffs' parents were riding was struck by a locomotive, then and there being negligently operated by defendant, and their deaths resulted therefrom.
The defenses were: a denial of the charges of negligence and that defendant was responsible for the deaths; and affirmative pleas, that the engine and cars were being operated by its employees and servants with reasonable care and diligence, and that the defendant was without fault.
Fully tried to a jury, there was a verdict for plaintiffs for the full amount sued for. A motion for a new trial having been made and denied, defendant gave notice of appeal "from the judgment overruling its motion for new trial".
Here, assigning as error the action of the court in overruling defendant's motion to disallow the amended complaint and in overruling defendant's motion for new trial, the appellant sets out in its brief the points made on the motion and argues that, for the reasons stated, the overruling of the motions was reversible error.
Appellees move to dismiss the appeal because taken not from the judgment but from the order denying the motion for new trial, an unappealable order.
In the alternative, they move for an affirmance, with ten percent damages for delay, on the ground that if the appeal be held to have been properly taken so as to bring the case here, it is a frivolous appeal because the assignment that it was error not to disallow the amendment of the complaint is wholly without merit, and the other errors assigned on the overruling of the motion for new trial present nothing for our review.
While we agree with appellees that an appeal will not lie from an...
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