Hines v. Kough

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Affirming.

The appellee, E. S. Hough, recovered in this action of the appellants, Mobile and Ohio Eailroad Company, and Walker D. Hines, then Director General of Eailroads in the United States, a verdict and judgment of $600.00, by way of damages, for the loss of two mules owned by him alleged to have been killed by a train of cars of the appellant, Mobile and Ohio Eailroad Company, through its negligence and that of its servants. The appellants were refused a new trial by the circuit court, complaining of which and of the verdict and judgment, they have…