Borah v. Southern Railway Co.

Appellee, Jep Borah, sued, before a justice of the peace, appellant, Southern Railway Company, to recover the value of his cow, tilled on appellant’s right of way by one of its trains, and obtained a judgment for $60. On appeal to the Circuit Court there was a verdict in favor of appellee for $50, for which amount and costs the judgment was entered against appellant, and the latter has brought the record 'by appeal to this court.

It appeared from the proofs that the cow had in some manner, through no fault of appellee, gotten out of his bam where he had placed her on the evening of December…