Cattle
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A collective name for domestic quadrupeds generally, including not only the bovine tribe, but horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats, and swine.
Web. Diet; Decatur Bank v. Bank, 21 Wall. (U. S.) 299, 22 L. Ed. 5G0.
A railroad engineer cannot take chances of an animal's getting off the track, where he has an opportunity of avoiding all possibility of an injury; Elmsley v. R. Co. (Miss.) 10 South. 41. It is immaterial whether the stock was legally at large or not, where the road is not fenced; Terre Haute & I. R. Co. v. Schaefer, 5 Ind. App. 86, 31 N. E. 557; but where not legally at large and the company is under no legal obligation to fence its road, it will only be responsible for gross, 'wanton, or wilful negligence in causing injury to stock; Windsor v. R. Co., 45 Mo. App. 123.
See Ohio & M. Ry. Co. v. Gross, 41 111. App. 561.
The law does not presume negligence from the mere fact that stock was killed or injured by a railroad company; Eddy v. Lafayette, 49 Fed. 79S, 1 C. C. A. 432; See Animals; Running at Large.