St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Heintz

McCurrocií, J.

This is an action against the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company to recover the value of a horse alleged to have been negligently killed by the defendant' in the operation of its trains. The horse was killed by a train near Ebony, a' station on the road of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company in Crittenden County a few miles east of the railroad bridge which crosses the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tennessee. Appellant operated one train each way per day over said road, the train going to Memphis being due at that place at 6.20 o’clock in the forenoon. It…