Reynolds v. Chicago, Great Western Railroad

The defendant’s track passed through the farm occupied by plaintiff as a tenant. There was a private crossing, and in the afternoon of January 4, 1911, shortly before 4 o’clock, plaintiff’s son and an employee undertook to take six head of horses from the barnyard over this crossing into the cornstalk field beyond. Three of the horses escaped and ran down the track, but, as the train approached, turned back, and two of them were killed by the engine about sixty rods from the crossing. The day was clear. Snow covered the ground at considerable depth on both sides of the track. For a mile and…