Case ID: ga-app_21/html/0080-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

8351.
    Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. Wallace.
   Luke, J.

1. Upon the trial of a suit against a railroad company for damages for the killing of a dog by the running of its locomotives or cars or other machinery, proof of such killing raises a presumption of negligence against the company. Seaboard Air-Line Ry. v. McDonald, 19 Ga. App. 627 (91 S. E. 1053).

Decided October 31, 1917.

Appeal; from Dade superior court — Judge Fite. December 27, 1916.

Payne & Hale, for plaintiff in error.

2. The evidence authorized the verdict, and the court did not err in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

Wade, G. J., and Jenkins, J., concur.