Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Roberts

This.is an action to recover the value of a horse alleged to have been killed through the negligent operation of a train of cars by the engineer of the appellant. Judgment in favor of appellee for $100 and costs. Appellant brings the case here for review.

On September 20, 1893, the appellee (plaintiff below) found a horse that belonged to him lying-dead by the side of the defendant’s railroad track, partially buried, with severe bruises upon his right shoulder and other portions of the body, at the foot of an embankment or fill on which the railroad track of appellant was located, about 1,500…