Southern Railway Co. v. Freeman

1. “The evidence offered by the defendant railroad company to rebut the legal presumption of negligence was *404itself contradicted, and the jury were authorized to infer from the facts in the case that the killing of the mule might have been avoided by the exercise of ordinary diligence.” Southern Ry. Co. v. Edwards, 9 Ga. App. 26 (70 S. E. 194). In the present action, a suit for the killing of one cow and injury to another, the evidence for the plaintiff disclosed that the point where the cows were struck was visible for a distance of 400 yards around a curve, and' that the animals were on the…