Goodrich v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Thompson

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action on the case brought by William H. Goodrich and Charles C. Goodrich, appellees, against the Chicago Great Western Bailway Company, appellant, to recover damages for killing five horses and injuring two others belonging to the appellees, by a train on appellant’s railway The horses got upon the railroad track from the farm of appellees at a railroad farm crossing, through a gate which it is alleged was unsuitable and insufficient to prevent horses and stock from getting on said railroad.

The appellees’ farm…