Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Shelton

This suit was brought by appellee in a justice court to recover the value of. a mare, whose death, he alleged, resulted from the negligence of appellant in maintaining a gate in a defective condition at a farm crossing, and a barbed wire fence inclosing its right of way on the opposite side of its track, defectively constructed, in bad repair, and dangerous to stock not breachy or unruly. Appellant took an appeal from the judgment against it in the justice’s court, and the cause was tried in the Circuit Court, where a verdict and judgment for §115 damages and costs was rendered in favor of…