Gilchrist v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

This suit is brought to recover the value of a horse of the plaintiff alleged to have been killed through the negligence of the employes of the defendant company. Trial by jury resulted in a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $125, to reverse which the defendant prosecutes this appeal.

The declaration charges that the defendant received and undertook to carry the horse in question from Lincoln to Bloomington, and there safely deliver the same to the plaintiff ; that the horse was loaded into a car upon the side track. then switched from the side track out onto the main track and then taken…