Davis v. Vaughan

The appeal is from a judgment in appellee’s favor for $350 — the value, as found by a jury, of a dog appel-lee owned, which, on October 15, 1919, was killed by a freight train operated over the Texas & Pacific Railway Company’s line of railway in Harrison county. Appellee alleged in his petition that the death of the dog was due to negligence of the trainmen “in failing to blow the whistle of the train and giving said dog notice that said train was approaching, and in failing to stop or attempt to stop said train after the discovery of said dog on the track, or when by the exercise of…