Texas Central R. R. Co. v. Mallard

CONNEB, Chief Justice.

On appeal from the Justice Court to the County Court appellee recovered a judgment against appellant in the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars as the value of one mare and colt killed by a passing train in the town of Hamlin on about the 6th of November, 1908. The evidence shows that the animals were injured at a distance of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred and fifty yards from the east end of appellant’s depot, .within'the appellant’s switch limits. The only public crossing in the vicinity shown by the evidence is that of Central Avenue, a public…