Court Opinion

ID: 5607646
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 03:48:49.314412+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:37:00.415085
License: Public Domain

Wade, J.
Though the placing of cross-ties at a switch on the line of a railway company for its acceptance and use, and their subsequent removal by some one, might create a presumption that the ties had been accepted and used by the company, and a corresponding obligation on its part to pay therefor, yet where positive, unequivocal, and uncontradicted testimony denies that the ties were ever inspected or received by the company, this presumption- is legally rebutted. The verdict against the railway company in this case was therefore unauthorized, and the judge of the superior court erred in overruling the certiorari.

Judgment reversed.