Adams v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad

This is a suit for double damages alleged to have accrued to the plaintiff under the railroad fence statute, by the killing of her cow on defendant’s tracks. Plaintiff recovered and defendant appeals. It is conceded throughout the case that the *158plaintiff’s Jersey.cow, valued at $75, was killed on defendant’s railroad track by a collision with one of its trains. The point where the animal entered upon the railroad and was killed is outside any town or city and not within the switch limits of any depot or station grounds.' In fact, the cow was killed in a farming community. She entered upon…