Lovejoy v. Chesapeake & O. R'y Co.

Holt, President:

On writ of error from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cabell county, rendered on the 4th day of April, 1895, in favor of Lovejoy against defendant, for one hundred and fifty dollars damages for killing stock on the track.

The facts are as follows: On the 5th day of May, 1894, a freight train of defendant, of twenty six cars, about nine hundred feet long, was running west near Ona station, at a speed of from twenty to twenty four miles an hour. Plaintiff had turned his mules out of the field, and they came up on to the embankment and the railroad track about two hundred or…