Barnhart v. Chicago, Milwaukue & St. Paul Railway Co.

I. Plaintiff seeks to recover damages for the value of a horse, which he claims was so badly-injured, by reason of defendant’s negligence, as to be rendered useless. The negligence charged is: First, in maintaining an insufficient cattle guard, over which said horse, which had escaped from an inclosure, passed upon the defendant’s right of way, and was injured; second, that the employes of the defendant, in charge of its engine and train, and knowing that said horse had passed over said guard onto defendant’s track and right of way, which was inclosed by a fence, and also knowing that there…