International-Great Northern R. v. Allen

This suit was filed in a justice court of Grimes county by G. R. Allen against the appellant railroad company, to recover $125.00, the value of one mule the property of the plaintiff, and for $20 attorney's fee. The plaintiff alleged that the operatives of one of the defendant's locomotives and trains negligently ran said locomotive against his mule, thereby causing its death.

Defendant answered by a general denial, and by special plea averred that plaintiff's mule, if struck and killed as alleged by plaintiff, was struck within the switch limits of defendant railroad, within the city limits…