Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Bird

Bird recovered a verdict from the Central of Georgia Bailway Company, for $3,053.58 as damages, the value of 41 bales of cotton consumed by fire while in a car of the defendant, and the case is here on exceptions to the judgment overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial. The facts, briefly stated, are as follows: Bird, the owner of the 41 bales of cotton, placed them in the Farmers’ Union Warehouse at Metter, Georgia, marked for shipment to Savannah, Georgia. This warehouse was within three or four yards of the track of the defendant, and between three and four hundred yards from its…