Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. Timmons

This Avas an action originally brought before a justice of the peace, of Williamson county, and from his judgment carried by appeal to the circuit court of that county, Avhere, on a trial had before Judge Cartwright and a jury, verdict and judgment tvere rendered in favor of defendant in error for $155.

*32The cause of action stated in the warrant was: “Failure to place and keep a good and sufficient cattle guard or stops at the point of entering his (Timmons’) field or inclosure near to and adjoining the town of Thompson’s Station, and lying between mile posts 214 and 215 on the L. & N. R. R.,…