Wabash Railroad Co. v. Johnson

This is an action on the case. The declaration, which contains one count, charges that appellant, by the negligence of its servants, bruised, lamed, and otherwise injured twenty-one head of horses, delivered to it by appellee for carriage from Jacksonville to Chicago. At the close of the evidence an instruction to find defendant not guilty was presented, but refused. A verdict was returned finding for the plaintiff and assessing his damages at the sum of 6400. Judgment was rendered thereon, from which the defendant appeals.

The facts involved in brief, are as follows: Appellee was engaged in…