Seawell v. . R. R.

The action is brought to recover damages of the defendant for killing plaintiff's bull by the negligent running of defendant's train.

The killing was admitted, and there was evidence as to the value of the animal. It was also in evidence that "the bull was one and one-half miles from the house of the plaintiff when killed."

The defendant introduced as a witness its engineer, B.R. Lacy, who testified: "I was engineer and in charge of the defendant's freight train on the night of 13 September, 1887, and remember killing the plaintiff's stock. It was not raining, but a dark, murky night, and after…