Wallace v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

This is an action of negligence; the charge being that defendant; having undertaken to transport a car load of hogs from North Adams to Cleveland, neglected to use reasonable dispatch, and did not deliver them at the stockyards within a reasonable time, and neglected to water the hogs externally while in transit, although the necessity for so doing was known to defendant’s agents. It is charged that from the lack of such watering, and because of such neglect, a portion of the hogs died.

The testimony on the tidal tended to show that the car was shipped from North Adams at 6:49 p. m., and that…