Case ID: ga_105/html/0481-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": ".\"Lewis, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Southern Railway Company v. New.
    Argued February 16,
    Decided April 12, 1898.
    Action for damages. Before Judge Bite. Gordon superior •¿court. May 18, 1897.
   ."Lewis, J.

Where a cow was killed upon a railroad-track at a point beyond a públic crossing, and it appeared from the testimony that the killing was unavoidable after the danger became apparent, the only fact relied on by the plaintiff as evidence of negligence being a failure to observe the statutory rule in approaching the crossing, a verdict for the plaintiff was contrary to the evidence. Air-Line Railway Co. v. Gravitt, 93 Ga. 370 (6).

Judgment reversed.

All concurring, except Cobb, J., absent.

Shumate & Maddox, for plaintiff in error.

Starr & Erwin, contra.