Nelson v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

The plaintiff, Ben Nelson, sued the railroad company to recover the value of a hound dog, alleged to have been run over and' killed by a train through negligence of those operating the train. Defendant answered denying that the train killed the dog and also that there was negligence on the part of defendant’s servants in operating the train.

In the trial of the case plaintiff introduced evidence sufficient to establish the fact that the dog was run over and killed .by the locomotive of a fast freight train. This occurred on appellant’s road' called the White River Branch, north of Newport,…