Southern Railway Co. v. Wells

An action was brought by Wells against the Southern Railway Company, in the county court of Appling county, for damages alleged to have been occasioned by the negligent killing of three sheep and one ox by the running of the defendant’s trains. As originally filed, the plaintiff’s petition alleged that all these animals were killed in the 457th militia district of that county, it being the district in which the court-house of the county is located. It appeared at the trial, that the defendant’s line of railroad runs through Appling •county, and that a portion of it is located in the…