Georgia Railroad v. Bird

Hall, Justice.

The defendant in error brought suit in a justice’s court against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company for damage done in killing her cow by the running of its locomotive and cars, and upon the trial, on the appeal in that court, she obtained a verdict; the company sued out a certiorari which was sustained, and a new trial ordered by the 'judge presiding in the superior court. It appears from the facts set forth in the petition for certiorari, and by the return of the magistrate thereto, that the killing of the animal by the running of the locomotive, etc., of the company,…