4 Willson 212 | Tex. App. | 1890
Opinion by
§ 148. Railroad companies; hilling stoch; evidence must show injury to have resulted by actual contact with train. This appeal is from a judgment recovered by appellee against appellant for $500, the value of a horse alleged to have been killed by a train of appellant. We think the evidence does not warrant the judgment. To authorize a recovery it devolved upon appellee to prove, by a preponderance of evidence, that the injury to the horse resulted from an actual contact with him of the appellant’s train. If the horse'ran'upon the bridge and fell off it, and thus received the injuries which resulted in his death, appellee is not entitled to recover. A preponderance of the evidence, in our opinion, makes it probable that it was in such way that the horse was in
Reversed and remanded.