Case ID: ga-app_7/html/0324-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

2205.
    Martin v. Southern Railway Company.
    Action for damages; from city court of Floyd county — Judge. Hamilton. September 13, 1909.
    Submitted December 20, 1909. —
    Decided January 20, 1910.
    
      M. B. Eubanks, W. B. Mebane, for plaintiff.
    
      George A. II. Harris & Son, Maddox, McCamy & Shumate, for defendant.
   Powell, J.

A petition filed in a city court against a railroad company* alleging merely that “the train of the defendant company ran over and killed a shepherd dog of petitioner’s, of the value of $50,” was properly dismissed on demurrer. Even if the negligent killing of a dog' is actionable, it is necessary to allege the negligence, (Ga. R. Co. v. Williams, 3 (Ga. App. 272 (59 S. E. 846) ; Barden v. Ga. R. Co., 3 Ga. App-344 (59 S. E. 1122). Judgment affirmed.