122 Ga. 547 | Ga. | 1905
(After stating the foregoing facts.) It costs time, trouble, and money to defend even an unfounded claim. Parties have a right to purchase their peace. The fact that they have entered into negotiations to secure that end, and admissions or propositions made with the view to a compromise, are not admissible in evidence for or against either litigant, in the event there is a failure to adjust and a suit follows. For a much stronger reason, evidence of a settlement with a third person injured in the same casualty ought to be excluded. The court therefore
The charge as to the right to recover for the loss of hire during the period the horses were idle because of the injury stated a correct principle. But as given it was harmful to the defendant. It did not instruct the jury that they could not in any event allow more for injury and loss of service than the sound value of the animals. Atlanta Co. v. Hudson, 62 Ga. 683 (2); Telfair County v. Webb, 119 Ga. 916 (2). Excluding the price orig
Reversed.