Goodwin v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad

This suit was commenced before a justice of the peace, to recover damages for the killing of a steer belonging to plaintiff, by a train of defendant’s cars, at the crossing of a public highway in Daviess county, occasioned, it is alleged in the statement, by the carelessness and negligence of defendant’s servants, in managing and running the locomotive and cars. The fact that the steer was killed at said crossing by the train, is not controverted, and the evidence for plaintiff tended to prove that .the train was running about twenty-five miles an hour, and that the bell on the locomotive was…