Paris & Decatur Railroad v. Mullins

Citations

• 66 Ill. 526

Syllabus

<p>Negujobnce—in not slackening speed of train to save stock. Where the evidence, on the trial of an action against a railroad company for killing a colt, tended to show that the colt ran on the track in front of an advancing train, before it was struck and killed, for a distance of twenty-five or thirty rods, and the track was straight, so that the engine driver, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, could have discovered it in time to have slackened the speed of the train so as to have avoided the accident, a verdict, finding the company liable for the value of the colt, may be properly found, notwithstanding the evidence is conflicting.</p>