Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Raines

1. Evidence that the plaintiff’s dog was found lying dead about ten feet from the defendant’s railroad-track, that there were no marks or lacerations on the dog, “but the slag along said railroad looked as though something had been knocked or drug over it,” was insufficient to authorize the inference that the dog was killed by the operation of one of the defendant’s trains. It was sufficient to authorize only a mere conjecture that the dog was so killed. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. Price, 17 Ga. App. 762 (88 S. E. 692).

2. On the trial of a suit by the owner of a dog against a…