Francis v. Thompson

McINNIS, Judge ad hoc.

On July 24, 1950 a freight train of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, of which Guy A. Thompson is trustee, ran over and killed a whitefaced heifer cow near the railroad station at Longleaf in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, for which plaintiff demands $168 with legal interest from judicial demand.

Negligence charged to the employees of the railroad is that they knew or should have known of the presence of cattle in the vicinity, and failed to operate the train at such speed as to avoid striking and killing livestock, and failed to whistle and otherwise signal livestock to…