Peirce v. Ray

The appellee brought his action against the appellant as receiver of the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas *303City Railroad Company, to recover damages for the killing of appellee’s two horses, and the destruction of their harness, and injury to his wagon, and for personal injury to the appellee, caused by the collision, through appellant’s negligence, of a locomotive engine with appellee’s team and wagon at a public crossing on appellant’s railway in the town of Greentown, in Howard county. A demurrer to the complaint for want of sufficient facts was overruled. There was an answer in denial, and…