Court Opinion

ID: 5610081
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 03:56:40.757168+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:37:04.854299
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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 *81negligence 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.