Comstock v. Des Moines Valley R. R.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wa/pello District Court. Action to recover for stock injured and killed by the engine and train on tbe defendant’s railroad. There was a jury trial, resulting in a verdict for $410, and judgment for the plaintiff for $390. The defendant appeals. The further necessary facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtOole, J.
d*iiabUityt0for* mmí klUed: I. The stock in controversy was injured and killed near a diagonal highway crossing of the defendant’s road, about five hundred feet west of a station house; the railroad being fenced on both sides from the station house to a cattle guard, situated about *377forty-eight feet east of a switch-block, which was near the east line of the highway. The damage was done in the night-time, and, so far as the testimony discloses, the accident was not seen by any one. One colt, valued at $125, was found in the morning dead, and evidently killed by the train, lying nearly in the…
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- Davis v. Burlington & Missouri River R. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1869
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