Columbus & G. Ry. Co. v. Owens

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding- the appellee damages for the death of live stock shipped by him over the appellant’s railroad.

The appellee delivered to the appellant, at Greenville, Mississippi, one hundred forty-nine mules for transportation and delivery to himself at Palatka, Florida. The cars in which the stock were transported reached Palatka over the Georgia, Southern & Florida Railway on Friday, January 15th, late in the afternoon. On account of a congestion of traffic in the yard of the delivering carrier, the cars containing the stock were not placed at the pen provided…