South Carolina & Georgia R. R. v. Powell

J. H. Powell brought suit in a justice’s court .against the South Carolina & Georgia Railway Company, for damages resulting from the killing of a mule by its train. The ■case was tried on appeal in Glascock superior court, where a verdict was rendered by the jury for the plaintiff for $75. The defendant made its motion for a new trial, on the general grounds that the verdict was contrary to the evidence and without evidence to support it, and contrary to law. It appeared on the trial of the case that the mule was killed on the defendant’s track at night by its passenger-train. It was shown in…