Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Co. v. Converse

1. This is a suit against a railroad company to recover for the value of the plaintiff’s “possum dog,” alleged to have been negligently run over and killed by the defendant. The dog having been found dead and cut in two on the defendant’s railroad track immediately after a train had passed, a finding that the dog was killed by the defendant’s train was authorized, and, under section 2780 of the Civil Code (1910), the defendant was presumably negligent. The evidence for the defendant, by the engineer of the train, that on approaching the place where the dog was found dead the track is straight…