Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Hill

This was a suit against the railroad company to recover the value of a cow killed by one of the company’s trains within the corporate limits of Boodhouse. Appellee recovered in the court below, and appellant asks a reversal of the judgment, on the ground, principally, that the verdict of the jury is not sustained by the evidence.

The evidence shows that on the 15th of October, 1885, appellee’s cow was grazing on the west side of the railroad track at a point some 150 feet north of a public crossing, upon which she was afterward struck and killed. From the point where the cow was grazing, south…