O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-8-210 (2019)

Reports by engineers of livestock and other property injured, killed, or destroyed; maintenance of record books

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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Every railroad company shall require of every engineer employed by it to render daily to a proper officer an account of any livestock or other property injured, killed, or destroyed, which reports shall be recorded in a book which shall be kept open for inspection by all persons. For the failure to keep such a record and to require such reports by engineers, the company shall be liable for 10 percent extra damages to any person whose livestock or other property is injured by the company.

History

(Ga. L. 1847, p. 250, § 4; Code 1863, § 2981; Code 1868, p. 2982; Code 1873, § 3037; Code 1882, § 3037; Civil Code 1895, § 2247; Civil Code 1910, § 2703; Code 1933, § 94-704.)

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Biggers ex rel. Key v. Southern Ry., 820 F. Supp. 1409 (N.D. Ga. 1993). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 65 Am. Jur. 2d, Railroads, § 474.