Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Ry. Co. v. Bourne
Appellate Court of Illinois
Statutory Action, for killing of stock by railroad. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Morgan County; the Hon. Owen P. Thompson, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the May term, 1902.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. J ustioe Burroughs
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action commenced before a justice of the peace of Morgan county by the appellee against the appellant, to recover damages and attorney fees under the statute for seventeen hogs killed by the trains of the appellant while on the tracks, where they had strayed through an insufficient fence between his pasture and its right of way.
The case was first tried before the justice and afterward by jury in the Circuit Court, where it resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of the appellee for $112 damages and $35 attorney fees. >
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R. Co. v. McCordAppellate Court of Illinois · 1894
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- Hartzell v. Alton, Granite & St. Louis Traction Co.Appellate Court of Illinois · 1913