Case ID: ga-app_3/html/0222-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Russell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

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    Carter v. Central of Georgia Railway Company.
    Action for damages, from city court of Floyd county — -Judge Hamilton. June 12, 1907.
    Submitted November 25,
    Decided December 9, 1907.
    
      M. B. Eubanks, for plaintiff.
    
      J. Branham, G. E. Maddox, for defendant.
   Russell, J.

There was no error in awarding a nonsuit. The evidence at most merely raises a suspicion or conjecture that the fire was caused by sparks from an engine which had passed. The evidence does not authorize a reasonable inference that the fire was set out by the defendant’s engine. This case is controlled by Harris v. Ga. Ry. & Elec. Co., 1 Ga. App. 714 (57 S. E. 1076); G., J. & S. R. Co. v. Edmondson, 101 Ga. 747 (29 S. E. 213); Southern Railway Co. v. Myers, 108 Ga. 166 (33 S. E. 917). Judgment ajirmed.