Mire v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Plaintiff claims damages in the sum of twenty-one hundred and ninety-five dollars for killing eleven of her mules, one horse, and injuring another of her horses, in all thirteen head killed and injured.

Defendant’s train on its way north on the morning of the thirteenth of November, 1899, at about three o’clock was near Bayou Manchac, the dividing line between the parishes of East Baton Eouge and Iberville. Plaintiff had about sixty head of live stock in all. They, in the night, made their escape from the lot in which it was customary to…