Bartley v. Georgia Railroad

Warner, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff brought his action against the defendant to recover damages for killing his cow. The case, by agreement, was submitted to the decision of the presiding judge without the intervention of a jury, upon the following agreed statement of facts :

“ The cow of the plaintiff was killed by the way-freight train of defendant, No. 48, on the 22d of April, 1877. The cow was worth seventy-five dollars, was killed about two o’clock p. m., at or near the six-mile post on defendant’s road in Richmond county. Defendant’s train was coining down a stee^p grade at the time the…