Georgia Railroad v. Carr
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Damages. Negligence. Streets. Roads and Bridges. Municipal Corporations. Before Judge Roney. Richmond Superior Court. April Term, 1884. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
Carr sued the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company for damages, in that, by its negligence in blowing its whistle unlawfully and unnecessarily within the limits of the city of Augusta, it caused the horse, drawing a wagon in which plaintiff was seated, to run away and badly injure and cripple him.
The jury found seventeen hundred dollars for the plaintiff, and the railroad company being denied a new trial, excepted.
*5591. We do not think that the verdict is contrary to law because contrary to the evidence, which ground means, to be availing in this court, that the verdict is…
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