Saint Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway Co. v. McKinsey

ACKER, Presiding Judge.

E. A. McKinsey purchased two horses on the 13th day of Hovember, 1887, then recently driven from Southwest Texas, and put them in his pasture through which the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway Company in Texas operated its railroad. Three days thereafter the railway company negligently set fire to the pasture fence and destroyed it, and the horses escaped. After several months’ diligent search through Hopkins and adjacent counties McKinsey failed to find his horses, and brought this suit against the railway company to recover their value.

The trial without a jury…