Case Name: Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. Wallace
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1917-10-31
Citations: 21 Ga. App. 80
Docket Number: 8351
Parties: Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. Wallace.
Judges: Wade, G. J., and Jenkins, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 80–81

Head Matter:
8351.
Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co. v. Wallace.

Opinion:
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.