Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railway Co. v. Summer

1. The court charged the jury as follows: “If it should be shown to your satisfaction, first, that the plaintiff has sustained an injury, and in the next place it should be made satisfactorily to appear to you that such injury or damage was done by the railroad, I say if these two things appear, and made further to appear that it *135was tlie property of the plaintiff, then the law would raise the presumption of negligence against the railroad, and it would place the burden upon the railroad of showing that it was not liable, either by showing that it didn’t do the injury, or that, if it did do…