Ewing v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

This appeal is prosecuted by the plaintiff in the court below to reverse a judgment rendered against him for costs, in an action on the case brought by him for the value of a cow alleged to have been killed by the negligence of the defendant.

It is shown, by the evidence, that the cow was killed by a locomotive drawing a train of cars on the defendant’s road, about 3 o’clock in the morning of the 16th of December, 1872, in the immediate vicinity of Lawndale, in Logan county. The road at this point runs north and south, or at least approximately so, and Lawndale is composed of a few houses,…