Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Dean

HODGES, Associate Justice.

In this case the appellee recovered a judgment against the appellant for the aggregate sum of $400.00 for the death of a mule and an injury to a horse. It is claimed that the mule was killed by being negligently struck and run over by one of the appellant’s trains. The sufficiency of the evidence to support the finding of negligence is challenged by the different assignments of error. It is shown that the mule escaped from a lot and was upon a crossing where a road commonly used by the public crossed the appellant’s track, and that the appellant’s agents in charge of…