Matoza v. Southern Pacific Co.

The action is brought by plaintiff for the recovery of damages for the death of four cows, and certain expenses incident to their treatment in an effort to save them, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant in obstructing a private farm crossing traversing its railroad tracks so that the plaintiff was prevented from removing his herd of dairy cows from a field of green alfalfa, in consequence of which some of the herd consumed too much of the succulent pasture, four of them dying from the effects thereof.

Judgment went for plaintiff in the sum of $680, and the defendant…