Crawley v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Negligence. Presumptions. Verdict. New trial. Before Judge Roney. McDuffie superior court. September term, 1887. Reported in tbe decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
Crawley sued the railroad company for killing two of his mules, by tbe alleged negligent running of its *191engines and cars. The jury returned a verdict in his favor. The defendant made a motion for a new trial, upon the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, strongly and decidedly against the weight of evidence, without evidence to support it, contrary to the charge of the court and contrary to law. The court granted the motion, and the plaintifi excepted.
1. Under our law, whenever a plaintifi proves that his property has been damaged by the running of the…
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