10 Ga. App. 104 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1911
The railroad company killed the plaintiff’s mule. The jury found for the plaintiff. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, and it excepts.
If the engineer’s testimony is to be taken as the truth of the transaction, the company was not liable. It is argued that the jury had no right to disregard this testimony. It is conceded that other
It is' said, however, that the verdict was without evidence to support it, because it is not shown that the injury complained of occurred in Laurens county. The testimony of at least one of the witnesses locates the scene of the killing of the mule at a point less than a quarter of a mile from the defendant company’s station at Bockledge, as he himself, according to his testimony, was about a quarter of a mile from the station, and the place where the mule was killed was between him and the station. By the act of August 17, 1908 (Acts 1908, p. 900), we are informed that the town of Bockledge is in the county of Laurens, and that its corporate limits extend “eight hundred yards in all directions from the depot of the Macon, Dublin & Savannah Bailroad Company at Bockledge. ” Hence every point on the company’s track within a quarter of a mile of the station at Bockledge is in Laurens county. Therefore, even if the point as to the jurisdiction of the court may be made under the general grounds of the motion for a new trial, it is not well taken. Judgment affirmed.