Louisville N. R. Co. v. Coxe

The appeal is from a judgment recovered by appellee against appellant railway company for the death of xilaintiff’s bird dog that was run over and killed by cars of defendant’s train at the mining camp known as Muscoda. The defendant’s locomotive was pushing several cars on an up grade, going toward Raimund, the cars reaching the dog first, the train moving from 20 to 35 miles per hour. According to one witness, the dog was killed “about 40* or 50, maybe 60 feet from the crossing,” and, from another, “the dog was going across a walkway” and had gotten on the track “beyond the crossing towards…