Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Thomas
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Certiorari; from Brooks superior court—Judge Thomas. May 17, 1912.
1Opinion of the CourtBussell, J.
Upon a former review of this ease (10 Ga. App. 45, 72 S. E. 514) the judgment of the- judge of the superior court, refusing to sustain a certiorari, was reversed. The reversal was expressly ba,sed solely upon the ground that the verdict was without evidence to support it, in that the evidence of the railroad company’s servants rebutted the plaintiff’s prima facie case, which depended on the statutory presumption of negligence arising from and authorized by proof that the injury- in question had been caused by the operation of the defendant’s train. Civil Code, § 2780. In other words, this…
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