Rome Railroad v. Ransom

Blandford, Justice.

Ransom sued the Rome Railroad Company, in a justice’s court, to recover damage for the killing of a cow by the running of the defendant’s trains. On the trial of the *706case, Ransom showed that his cow had been hilled by an engine of this company running on its road. The railroad company showerd that at the time the cow was killed, it was night, and was raining and foggy, and that on that account it was impossible to see the cow until they got within twenty yards of it; that they used every possible effort to stop the train in time, but it was impossible to do so; and that…