Paul v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

At about sis o’clock in the morning of February 7, 1900, the defendant’s passenger train killed two of the plaintiff’s colts. They were kept on the farm of his brother, from whose barn yard about fifty yards north of the railroad, was a lane to a field on the south side of the track over a private crossing. On each side of this were cattle guards about forty feet apart. The evidence was such as to warrant the jury in finding the defendant negligent in not keeping the west cattle guard in repair,, and in allowing it to become so filled with snow i. injury to fectiveHattie guards: proximate…