Dumas v. Thompson

DREW, Judge.

Plaintiff instituted this suit to recover the sum of $150, the admitted value of a mule owned by him and admitted to have been killed on September 3, 1937, by a locomotive owned by the defendant. The suit is based upon Act No. 70 of 1886 which requires the plaintiff to prove only that the killing or injury of his stock was by the railway company, unless it be shown that the killing or injury was not a result of fault or carelessness on its part or the negligent or indifferent running or management of its locomotive or train. The animal in question was killed at a grade crossing.…