Central of Georgia Ry. Co. v. Pittman

This action is against a railroad company, and the complaint is in the following language:

“The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of seventy-five and no/100 dollars as damages for negligently killing one cow, the property of plaintiff, by its locomotive or train of cars at or near the 51 mile post on the Mobile & Girard Railroad, one of its railroads, on, to wit, -day of May, 1917.”

[1, 2] While the complaint is not as explicit as it might be, it was not tested by demurrer, and is sufficient to state a cause of action for the negligent killing of plaintiff’s cow, by and through the…