Louisville N. R. Co. v. Miller

Suit by R. H. Miller, plaintiff and appellee, against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, a corporation, for damages for wrongfully killing or injuring a mare, the property of plaintiff, on the defendant’s trestle spanning the Cahaba river. The jury returned a verdict for $75 in favor of plaintiff, and from the judgment thereon, defendant appeals.

There were 14 counts in the complaint, but the court permitted only one, count C, to go to the jury, which count reads as follows:

“Plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of five hundred dollars as damages for the wrongful killing or…