Cooper v. Oregon Short Line R. R. Co.

ADAIR, Commissioner.

This is an action sounding in tort to recover damages from appellant, a common carrier, for injuries sustained by horses included in a carload shipment. The dereliction charged is that the carrier so negligently operated its freight train that one horse was killed and seven others were injured while being transported over appellant’s road. The particular negligence charged was that, in making up a freight train in the railroad yards at Pocatello, a division point, the employees of appellant company so negligently, carelessly and violently handled the train that the car of…