Case ID: ky-op_4/html/0294-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Robertson :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. v. C. W. Clark.
    Railroads — Killing Stock — Burden of Proof.
    While the onus was on the appellant, it offered no evidence to show how the mule was killed or why. The jury had the right to- infer from the facts proven by appellee, that ordinary care might have avoided the accident.
    APPEAL PROM WARREN CIRCUIT COURT.
    January 25, 1871.
    
      Underwood, for appellant.
    
   Opinion op the Court by

Judge Robertson :

The instructions to the jury, though somewhat' plethoric are yet substantially as favorable to the appellant as it could reasonably ask.

And, while the onus was on the appellant, it offered no evidence to show how the mule was killed or why. The jury had a right therefore to infer from the facts proved' by the appellee that ordinary care might have avoided the accident of running over the mule.

We cannot say that the verdict was either unauthorized or exorbitant.

Wherefore the judgment is affirmed.