Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway Co. v. Pineo

Citations

• 56 Ill. 308

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—of its sufficiency to prow stock was killed on a railroad. In an action against a railroad company, to recover the value of a cow alleged to have been killed on the defendants’ road, it was proven by the plaintiff that he found the animal the day after she was injured, in a field, about twenty or thirty feet from the track, and there were marks on the track indicating such an accident. Another witness saw the cow in the same situation soon after a train had passed, and an employee of the company, while riding on the engine, saw a cow thrown from the track at about the same place, during the, month the cow was found dead. It was held, the evidence was sufficient to connect the company with the injury.</p>