Supreme Court of Arkansas March 25, 1899 (St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Markham)

Battle, J.

I. S. Markham owned a mule, which was killed on the 19th of July, 1897, by a train of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Campany. He sued the railway company, and stated in his complaint that the agents, servants and employees of the defendant had failed to post a notice of the killing within one week thereafter, and to keep the same posted for twenty days, and asked for double damages.