Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. v. Powers

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff sued to recover damages for the alleged negligent killing of his cow by one of defendant’s trains. Judgment was rendered for plaintiff for $125.00. Defendant appeals.

Plaintiff testified he last saw his cow alive in his barn about sundown the evening of February 17, 1964. The following morning he found her dead on the north side of defendant’s tracks. She had been cut into two parts. Her head and shoulders were in the forks of defendant’s railroad switch. The rest of her body was thirty steps from that point. This was in the corporate limits of the town of…