Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Green

This action was commenced before a justice of the peace and an appeal taken to the circuit court, where an amended complaint in three paragraphs was filed.

The first paragraph alleges the killing of one cow and the injuring of another by the defendant, on August 20th, 1885, with its locomotive and cars, at a place where the defendant’s track was not fenced, but where it might have been fenced.

The second paragraph alleges that on the night of the 20th of August, 1885, two cows, owned by the plaintiff, without his knowledge or fault, broke out of the enclosure in which he had them confined, and…