Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Thomas

In this case the appellee Thomas sued the appellant railway company, in a complaint of three paragraphs. The object of the suit was to recover the value of a certain mare, owned and possessed by appellee, alleged to have been killed by a locomotive and train of cars owned, used and operated by appellant on the line of its railway, in Gibson county. In the first paragraph, appellee has stated his cause of action under the statute, which makes a railway company, whose tracks are not securely fenced in, liable in damages for all animals killed or injured by its engines or cars, used and operated…