Stump v. Chicago & G. W. Ry. Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass, for killing domestic animals. Trial in the Circuit Court of Jo Daviess County, on appeal from a justice of the peace; the Hon. James Shaw, Judge, presiding. Verdict and judgment for defendant by direction of the court. Appeal by plaintiff. Heard in this court at the May term, 1899.
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. Presiding Justice Crabtree
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant sued appellee before a justice of the peace to recover damages for the loss of a mare and a mule killed in consequence of getting into a trestle bridge on the line of appellee’s railway, and being there so injured that they had to be killed.
On a trial in the Circuit Court the jury were instructed to find for appellee^ which being done, judgment was entered on the verdict, and the plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.
It appears from the evidence that several horses of appellant, including the mare and mule in question, had…
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