Yazoo & M. v. R. R. v. Gordon

Smith, O. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

On March 7, 1938, a carload of cattle which was being transported from Houston, Texas, to a place in Tennessee was in the appellant’s possession at Vicksburg, having come into its possession as a connecting carrier. The cattle were there unloaded into a cattle pen, and early the next morning while being reloaded into the car three of them escaped. Three or four hours thereafter, a steer, without provocation, attacked and gored the appellee, a child, on a public highway just out of Vicksburg. It is clear from the evidence that this steer was of…