Evansville & Crawfordsville R. R. v. Smith

In this case the appellee éued the appellant, before a justice of the peace of Knox county, to recover damages for the wounding and killing of a cow and bull owned by the appellee.

The complaint was in two paragraphs, in the first of which the appellee alleged, in substance, that, on the 18th day of December, 1876, his cow and bull, at a point in said county, entered upon the appellant’s railroad, where the same was not securely fenced in, and the appellant then and there, by its locomotive and cars, ran against and upon said cow aud bull, of the values, respectively, named in said paragraph,…