White v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway Co.

Plaintiff brings this suit to recover $300.00, the value of two mules run over and killed by a passenger train operated by the defendant company.

He alleges carelessness and negligence on the part of the defendant company and its employees.

Defendant answered admitting that the mules were killed by one of its trains, but denied liability on the ground that the killing of the mules was unavoidable; and it sets up that those operating the train did all in their power to avoid the accident.

The mules were killed three and a half miles west of Arcadia by an east bound passenger train. It seems that…