Gourley v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.

The leading features of this case, and the points made upon them, closely resemble those in Benton St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company (post, p. 155) Many of the grounds urged for a reversal are identical in the two cases, and, as to them, nothing need here be added to what is said in the Benton case. The plaintiff had one cow killed, and another injured, by the defendant’s locomotive, while running through the town of Phillipsburg, and the action proceeds upon a common *145law liability for negligence in the running and management of thé train. The animals in this case, as in the other,…