Powell v. American Sumatra Tobacco Company

Plaintiffs below (appellee here) recovered in the Circuit Court of Leon County, Florida a joint judgment in the total sum of $1016.46 against the Receivers of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company. The basis of the judgment is the total value of two head of Jersey milk cows and six head of young Hereford cows killed by the railroad company in the operation of its freight train on November 4, 1942, between mile posts 69 and 70 on the line between Tallahassee, Florida, and Bainbridge, Georgia.

The trial court submitted to a jury the issues made by a single count declaration charging negligence…