Regan v. Adams Express Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

This was an action against the defendant for not carrying safely and delivering two out of a shipment of fourteen horses of great value shipped from New Jersey, in a special car to New Orleans. One of the horses died the day after the arrival of the train, and the other, it is alleged, was greatly injured, owing, it is charged, to the negligence of the carrier.

They were running horses, worth, it was asserted, a large sum.

The defendants deny the negligence and injury charged.

They were'^shipped at Jersey City by Adams Express. At Chattanooga…