Routon v. Louisville & Nashville R. R.

The train of the defendants, running on its road in Henry county, Tennessee, overran and killed the plaintiff’s cow under the following cirumstances, for the payment of *529which she recovered a judgment in this action. The engineer testified as follows: N

“I was engineer on the train the morning of the accident, the eighteenth of October, 1872. It was passenger train No. 4. I was going down grade at the time of the accident, with my engine shut off. It was one of the steepest grades on that portion of the road, and is two miles long. I first discovered the cow about fifty yards in front of the…