Nugent v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

A carload of horses, including that in controversy, reached Webster City from Marathon, over the defendant’s line of railroad, at about 7 o’clock in the morning of October 31, 1915. An employee of Leonard & Carson’s directed the unloading of the horses and placed them in that company’s yards. This particular horse, with 5 or 6 others, occupied one of the pens until it, with 19 others, was loaded on defendant’s car at about 1 o’clock A. M. of November 2d following. In the meantime, the horses in this pen were fed twice a day, from an open trough, with hay, and 25 or 30 ears of corn raised in…