Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. J. C. Beam & Son
Appellate Court of Illinois
Transcript from a Justice of the Peace.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean County; the Hon. Thomas F. Tipton, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the November term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Boggs delivered
the opinion oe the Court.
A bull belonging to the appellees was struck by an engine and train of the appellant company, and so badly injured that it had to be, and was, killed. •
Appellees claimed it wandered upon, the railroad track because the appellant company failed to maintain a good and sufficient fence along the right of way.
They recovered judgment before a justiceof the peace and in the Circuit Court upon appeal, for the value of the animal, and the record of the latter trial is here by appeal.
Appellees left the'bull in their pasture which adjoined the right…
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