Louisville Nashville Railroad Co. v. Morris

JOHNSON, Judge.

The Circuit Court of Geneva County, Alabama, found appellant, the L. & N. Railroad Company, guilty of negligently killing four cows with its train and damages of $600.00 were awarded to appellees. From this judgment, this appeal is made.

On December 29, 1963, Q. P. Crutchfield, an employee of the Morris Farm for twenty-seven years, and whose duty it was to look after the cows, testified that he discovered four of the eighteen cows in the southeast pasture missing. He later found three of these cows dead and the fourth suffering a broken back, necessitating his shooting it. He…