Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Peeples

The suit was for damages on account of the killing of five head of cattle, which, the petition alleged, were killed by trains of the defendant, at stated times, near designated mileposts on its railway. The sex and value of each of the animals respectively were stated in separate paragraphs of the petition. So far as appears from the record, there was no demurrer or other objection to the sufficiency of the pleadings, but the plaintiff, by amendment, amplified his description of the cattle, by stating certain marks which’served to identify them. On the trial the plaintiff was the sole…