Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Howard

Mrs. Mattie B. Howard brought suit against the. Central of Georgia Railway Company, in the justice’s court of the 564th district, G. M., of Bibb county, for damages alleged to have been sustained by her on account of the unlawful killing of plaintiff’s cow by a train of the defendant company. At the trial judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant, and the plaintiff appealed to a jury in the justice’s court. When the case came up for trial on the appeal, she dismissed “ the case,” and not the appeal, and later brought suit on the same cause of action in the justice’s court of the 483d…