Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Abney

The appellee, as plaintiff, brought suit to secure damage for a cow killed on defendant’s railroad. The evidence shows that Carrier Mills is a station on the railroad of defendant, comprising a hamlet consisting of a hotel, post-office, three or four stores and a small collection of houses with a population of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred inhabitants. At that station was a depot and side track, which side track was used by the public and the company in loading and unloading freight on the road “from time to time, every day or two, for the -year round,” as testified to by the…