Bullington v. Newport News & M. V. Co.

English, Judge :

This was a suit brought by D. H. Bullington before L. S. Lee, a justice of the peace of Kanawha county, on the 28th day of April, 1887, against the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Company, a corporation, for the recovery of damages for a wrong, in which damages were claimed amounting to $250.00. It seems, that said corporation was operating a railroad through said county, and on the 24th day of April, 1887, a locomotive of defendant with tender and caboose attached under the control and management of the agents of said corporation killed two horses belonging to the…