Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railroad v. Dugan

Appellee sued appellant for the value of a cow and a mare alleged to have been killed on appellant’s track through the negligence of its servants. The cow was killed at a place where appellant had failed to fence its track as required bylaw. No question is made as to appellee’s right to recover her value. But the amount of damages assessed by the jury clearly indicates that they found for appellee the value of the mare also.

Appellee was the owner of eighty acres of land under fence and in cultivation, through the middle of which runs the boundary line of the village of Dalton. The mare was…