Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co. v. Grigsby
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 40. — TWO ACTIONS, ONE BY B. F. GKIGSBY AND ONE BY GRIGSBY BROS., AGAINST THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY CO. FOR KILLING STOCK.— Appeal from Fayette Circuit Court. Watts Parker, Circuit Judge. Judgment for Grigsby Bros, affirmed and that in favor of B. F. Grigsby POINTS AND AUTHORITIES.
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CASE 40. — TWO ACTIONS, ONE BY B. F. GKIGSBY AND ONE BY GRIGSBY BROS., AGAINST THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY CO. FOR KILLING STOCK.— Appeal from Fayette Circuit Court. Watts Parker, Circuit Judge. Judgment for Grigsby Bros, affirmed and that in favor of B. F. Grigsby POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. X. The verdict of the jury was flagrantly contrary to the evidence. 2. The court erred in the B. T. Grigsby case in assuming that five cattle belonging to that plaintiff had been killed by the train, when it had been denied by the defendant that more than four had been killed by the train, and the'…
1Opinion of the Court
*366Opinion of the Court by
Chief Justice Settle—
Reversing.
By these two actions against the appellant, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company, the one brought by the appellee B. F. Grigsby, and the other by appellees Grigsby Bros., damages were sought to be recovered of it for the killing of certain cattle and crippling of others, alleged to have resulted from.the negligence of appellant’s servants in running a train upon and over them at Walnut Hill station, in Fayette county; the train being a heavy one of 21 cars, drawn by two engines and used in transporting a circus company, its employes, stock,…
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