Roberts v. Richmond & Danville Railroad

Civil ActioN tried at Pall Term, 1882, of MeckleNrurg Superior Court, before Graves, J. This action was commenced before a justice of the peace to recover damages for killing a cow of the plaintiff. The cow, without the plaintiff’s, knowledge, escaped from the enclosed pasture ground in which she had been confined, and strayed off and, from a crossing highway, entered upon the track of the defendant’s railroad and was seen by the engineer of an approaching train when a mile distant as she came out of a “cut.” It was midday; the train consisted of eighteen loaded cars; the engineer applied the…