Hawks v. Locke

By an accident, on August 12, 1881, to a freight train on the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, which was then *206operated by the Fitchburg Railroad Company, under a contract hereinafter referred to, about one hundred and seventy swine were let loose from the train, and were scattered about and on the track. The defendant, the manager of the first-named railroad, took charge of clearing up the wreck, and ordered his section-master to collect the swine, and put them in a safe place. A part of the swine were thereupon driven to the plaintiff’s barnyard at about half-past five, and a part later in the…