Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Thompson

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson—

Affirming.

Tom Thompson on January 8th, 1910, brought to Lorretto and placed in the railway cattle pen there fifty-six mules and three horses to be shipped to Atlanta, Georgia. He wished to ship the stock that night, and brought them and placed them in the cattle pen about five p. m. at the direction of the railroad agent. The stock remained in the cattle pen quietly until about eight p. m., when a locomotive was moved in on a side track by the cattle pen and this caused the stock to run back against the hack fence of the cattle pen. The post next to…