Cox v. Texas & Pacific Ry. Co.

GLADNEY, Judge ad hoc.

This is a suit to recover the value of a mule that met its death under rather unusual circumstances on a trestle of appellee railroad company at about 9:00 a. m. on January 29, 1948 between Robeline and Provencal in the Parish of Natchitoches. All material facts have been admitted in pleadings or by stipulation.

The railway right-of-way at the location of the trestle is unfenced. We are at a loss to understand why the mule went upon the trestle, but this it did for the animal was found on, and a short distance from, the east end of the trestle with its legs wedged between…