Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Consolidated Railroad v. Lee

The appellee’s team of horses were injured in a collision with appellant’s engine.

The declaration contains four counts, which base the cause of action upon the negligence of the appellant in running its train through the city of Mt. Yernon at an unlawful rate of speed, and in failing to ring a bell or sound a whistle before reaching public crossings, as required by law. The evidence shows that appellant’s road is laid in Park avenue, a street in said city along which also is a public thoroughfare, intersecting -with which is Casey avenue, near the place where the accident occurred; that on…