Georgia Coast & Piedmont Railroad v. Smith
Court of Appeals of Georgia
■ Action for damages; from Liberty superior court—Judge Sheppard. September 29, 1917. Bert Smith sued the Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railroad Company for damages on account of the killing of his mule by a train of the defendant. The jury trying the case found for the plaintiff.
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■ Action for damages; from Liberty superior court—Judge Sheppard. September 29, 1917. Bert Smith sued the Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railroad Company for damages on account of the killing of his mule by a train of the defendant. The jury trying the case found for the plaintiff. The railroad eompahy excepts to the overruling of its motion for a new trial, based upon the general grounds and grounds which were merely amplifications of those grounds, and upon special grounds alleging error in the following excerpts from the charge of the court:, (a) “Of course, when the railroad company makes…
1Opinion of the CourtHarwell, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Where stock is killed by the running of the cars of a railroad company,- and there is some evidence other than the presumption' against the company, authorizing the jury to find that the employees in charge of the train were negligent and that the killing was the result of that negligence, a verdict against the railroad company should not be disturbed. Negligence, like any other fact, may be " established by circumstantial evidence as well as by direct evidence. In Southern Railway Co. V. Carter, 139 Ga. 237 (77 S. E. 21), Mr. Justice Beck said: “In…
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