Supreme Court of Georgia, 1882

Western & Atlantic Railroad v. McCauley

Western & Atlantic Railroad v. McCauley
Supreme Court of Georgia · Decided February 15, 1882 · Crawford
68 Ga. 818

Western & Atlantic Railroad v. McCauley

Opinion of the Court

Crawford, Justice.

[This was a suit against a railroad for killing a bull. The court charged that, in case the jury found for the plaintiff, they should give him the value of the bull at the time of the killing, and that they might give .legal interest thereon from the date of the killing to the trial, not as intérest, but as damages, adding it to the principal, and making a verdict for the aggregate amount.]

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