Hanger Bros. v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.

MilleR, Judge:

Plaintiffs seek reversal of the judgment below, on appeal from the judgment of a justice, setting aside the verdict of the jury in their favor, for one hundred and seventy-five dollars, and awarding defendant a new trial.

The action begun before a justice was for damages for alleged negligence of defendant in killing plaintiffs’ horse.

One of the questions presented in the court below, on the evidence, and by instructions to the jury proposed’by defendant, and in the petition filed in this Court, is whether the alleged negligence, if any, in killing the liorse was that of the…