Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. Co. v. Pauly

This is an appeal by the railway company from a judgment of one hundred and eighty dollars recovered by appellee in an action on the case, to recover damages for an injury to appellee’s horses and harness, alleged to have been occasioned through the negligence of the appellant, its agents and servants, while appellee’s team was being driven across appellant’s tracks on 55th street, Chicago. On the trial, the plaintiff offered evidence tending to prove some negligence on the part of the defendant, but which was contested by the latter, as was the matter of the exercise of ordinary care by the…