Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Smelley

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit at law for the recovery of damages for killing plaintiff’s mule at one time and his cow at another by defendant’s train of cars on its railroad track.’

The mule was killed at a public road crossing the track at Cottondale, Alabama, near the station, and where the crossing is about the center of a sharp curve extending about one thousand feet toward the left going toward Tuscaloosa from Birmingham, which we assume to be in a southwesterly direction. So that the crossing was about five hundred feet from where the curve began and obstructed the view of the engineer.

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