Tyler v. Illinois Central R. R.

Citations

• 61 Miss. 445

Syllabus

<p>Railroads. Injury to stock. Obstruction of egress. Degree of care.</p> <p>When it is shown in a suit for damages for injury to stock that the railroad company had fenced its track on both sides and had opened a gap on one side for its own convenience, and that through this gap the stock had strayed on the track and were killed while attempting to escape through the gap, there being no other means of egress, the jury should be allowed to say whether that degree of care which these circumstances called for had been exercised by those in charge of the train. Packwood v. Pailroad Co., 59 Miss. 280, distinguished.</p>