Southern Railway Co. v. Russell

1. Where plaintiff’s dog was eating on the carcass of a cow lying within three or four feet of the track of the defendant railway company, near a private crossing, and a freight-train of the defendant, at a speed of about thirty-five miles an hour, approached the place where the dog was eating, at which speed the train could not have been stopped within ten or fifteen feet by the engineer, and there was nothing to indicate that the dog was about to cross the track, and where the dog suddenly, when the train was within ten or fifteen feet of him, ran across the track in front of the…