Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Hilley

Pannell, Judge.

Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company brought an action in tort against J. Q. Hilley seeking to recover for damages to a locomotive engine owned by it which allegedly occurred as a result of a collision between the engine and the defendant’s tractor-trailer on the track of the Southern Railway Company while the engine was on bailment to the Southern Railway Company and pulling a Southern Railway Company train and when plaintiff did not, and had no right to, control the use and operation of the engine or train. After demurrers and answers were filed, the…