New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad v. Lee

SMITH, Justice:

New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Company has appealed from a judgment for $175 recovered against it by appellee, Mrs. Alberta Lee, in an action in the Circuit Court of Lamar County for the alleged negligent killing of a cow by one of its trains.

Upon the trial of the case, appellee put on testimony to the effect that the cow had been found near appellant’s tracks, apparently killed by a southbound freight train, and rested. No evidence was introduced or offered to show negligence upon the part of the railroad company’s employees in or about the operation of the train.-

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