Case ID: ga_77/html/0071-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Blandford, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Lessers of the Georgia Railroad vs. Sigman.
    Where suit was brought against a railroad company for negligently hilling the cow of the plaintiff, and the evidence was conflicting as to the distance at which the cow could have been seen by the agents of the defendant, and the court below refused to disturb the verdict of the jury in favor of the plaintiff, this court will not control- his discretion thus legally exercised.
    April 27, 1886.
    Railroads. Damages. Negligence. New Trial. Before Judge Stewart. Newton Superior Court. September Term, 1885.
    Reported in the decision.
    J. M. Page, for plaintiffs in error.
    Middlebrooks & Edwards, bv brief, for defendant.
   Blandford, Justice.

Sigman sued the Georgia Railroad Company for negligently killing his cow. The evidence submitted by the plaintiff to the jury as to the distance at which the cow could have been seen and the evidence of the railroad company were conflicting. The court below refused, to disturb the verdict of the jury, and we cannot say the court erred in so deciding. This was a matter in the discretion of the court, and when he has exercised that discretion according to law, his judgment will not be interfered -with.

Judgment affirmed.