St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Buice

This is a suit by defendant in error H. W. Buice, against plaintiffs in error, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company of Texas, and the Gulf, Colorado, & Santa F© Railway Company, for damages for killing a cow on the track of the first named company. Plaintiffs in error, in their answer in the county court, from which this appeal was perfected, alleged that the animal was killed within the depot ground and switching limits at the station of South Bosque at a place not required by law to be fenced.

The evidence shows that the cow was struck and killed by an east-bound train of the Gulf,…