Harvey Coal & Coke Co. v. Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. Co.

Miller, Judge:

Tire verdict and judgment below, on appeal, by defendant, from the judgment of a justice, was for three hundred dollars, interest and costs, damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff, by the killing by defendant of a pair of mules astray on its railway tracks.

All questions of error presented are covered by defendant’s motion, denied by the court below, to set aside the verdict and grant it a new trial.

The sole question is, was the law properly applied, and the verdict warranted bjr the facts proven? The complaint was that defendant negligently ran over and killed the…