Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. v. Moseley

STAKELY, Justice.

We granted certiorari in order that we might consider what is known in the operation of railroads as the “headlight rule”. In its opinion the Court of Appeals said:

“Also, in this State, a railroad company injuring stock by the running of its train in the night-time at such rapid rate of speed that it is impossible, by the use of *104ordinary means and appliances, to stop the train and prevent the injury, within the distance in which the stock upon the track could be seen by the aid of the headlight is guilty of negligence, which, if it caused the injury, entitled the owner to…