Kinyon v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

The plaintiff being the owner of thirty-nine steers, was driving them along the public highway and over a crossing of the defendant’s railway track. Before the passage was entirely accomplished, a train moving at a high rate of speed approached the crossing, and a collision occurred, in which sis of the steers were killed. The plaintiff alleges that this loss of his property was occasioned by the negligence of the railway company in the following particulars: . That the whistle of the engine was not sounded as required by law; that the whistle was not sounded at all on approaching the…