St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Grant

This is an appeal from a verdict and judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, in the two cases which were consolidated for the purpose of trial. The damage for which appellees sued was for the killing of a number of mules belonging to them caused by the operation of appellant’s train.

The occurrence out of which comes this litigation happened about eight o’clock p. m. on the 23d of August, 1930, on a straight stretch of appellant’s line of railway a short distance south of where the railway crossed the floodway of Drainage District No. 7 in Poinsett County, Arkansas, and not near or at a crossing.…