Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Thomas

This action was commenced in a justice’s court, in Monroe county, by John N. Thomas, the appellee, to recover damages from the appellant for the killing of appellee’s mule, on the track of the appellant in said county. An appeal was taken to the circuit court of that county, and from there, upon application for change of venue, the case was sent to the Lawrence Circuit Court.

The complaint, after being amended in the circuit court, was, in substance, that which is in use in this State in actions to recover for stock killed by a railway company because of the railroad not being securely fenced…