Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Radbourne

Appellant shipped horses from Montana to Asheville, North Carolina, in cars of his own selection for the whole trip, known as Street’s stable cars. By his order they were reloaded in the Union stock yards at Cincinnati, then delivered at the Park Street yards by an engine of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co. to appellant, to be transferred to the L. & N. R. R. Co. at Newport, Ky. At the latter place the employes of appellant attempted to make a running switch to throw the cars on the L. & N. side track—the engine being between them and the switch. By reason of snow on the track they stopped on…