Moss & Co. v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co.

Moss & Company instituted an action on the case against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, for damages. The basis of the action was negligence of the defendant in allowing sparks to escape from one of its engines, which set fire to the warehouse of the Athens Compress Company in which cotton belonging to plaintiffs was stored with cotton belonging to other persons, resulting in the burning of the cotton, and causing the plaintiffs to sustain damage in a stated, amount. On the trial, after conclusion of the evidence offered by both parties, the judge directed a verdict for the…