Rogers v. Georgia Railroad

Cobb, Justice.

Where it appears in a suit against a railroad company, .for damage on account of the killing of live stock, that the engineer was at the place on the engine where his duty required him, that he was looking ahead when the animal was first seen in the middle of the track in a curve, that "because of the curve, the boiler, smoke-stack, and sand-box, obstructing the view, the animal could not have been .sooner seen, and that it was impossible to stop the train before striking the animal after it was seen, and the only circumstance from which negligence could be inferred was that the…