Gee v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

This is a suit to recover damages for injuries inflicted, by an engine and cars of defendant, upon a mule belonging to tbe plaintiff. Tbe plaintiff bad judgment before tbe justice and in tbe circuit court, and tbe defendant bas appealed. No objection is made in this court to tbe sufficiency of tbe statement, and indeed tbe only matter alleged as error, is tbe refusal of" tbe court to give certain instructions asked by tbe defendant, which will be noticed hereafter.

It appears, from uncontradicted testimony, that tbe mule in question was in a pasture adjoining tbe right of way of tbe defendant,…