 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1881 - 878 sider
...committed, the presumption of the law is against them, and the burden is on the particular company to show that its agents have exercised all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence to have avoided that injury. This liability, however, has been guarded by qualifications which are... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1885 - 950 sider
...be liable for damage done to stock by its locomotives or cars, or by any person in its employment, unless it shall make it appear that its agents have..."all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence," or unless it appear that the injury to the property was done by the consent of the owner, or was caused... | |
 | 1909 - 1076 sider
...liable for any damage done to persons by the running of cars or other machinery, unless the company shall make it appear that its agents have exercised all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence ; the presumption in all cases being against the company, but this provision does not create such a... | |
 | 1912 - 1204 sider
...the defendant is liable for such damage, unless the defendant shall make it appear from the evidence that Its agents have exercised all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence; the presumption being against the defendant" "If, after a consideration of all the evidence, you find... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1895 - 892 sider
...stock or other property, by the running of ite locomotives, cars or other machinery, unless the company shall make it appear that its agents have exercised...all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence; and further provides that the presumption in all cases shall be against the company. In the present case,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1890 - 1052 sider
...the presumption that it occurred from negligence of the road, and the road is liable, unless it shows that its agents have exercised all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence, or that the person injured consented to it or caused it by his own negligence, or could have prevented... | |
 | Norman Fetter - 1897 - 874 sider
...locomotives or cars, or caused by any person in the employment of such company, unless the company shall make it appear that its agents have exercised all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence. Under this statute a presumption of negligence arises in all cases where a passenger is injured while... | |
 | 1907 - 1052 sider
...damaged by the running of its cars or locomotives, then the burden Is on the railroad company to show that its agents have exercised all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence, and what is all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence must depend on the facts and circumstances of... | |
 | 1916 - 1042 sider
...liable for any damage done to persons or property by the running of trains, unless the company »hall make it appear that its agents have exercised all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence. This section was intended to apply only to actions brought against railroad companies on liabilities... | |
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The presumption of negligence cast upon railroads by our statute in personal injury cases ceases when the railroad company has made it appear by a preponderance of the evidence that its agents have exercised all ordinary and reasonable care and diligence.... 
