508 CARRIERS OF ANIMALS. 



though it adds to his burden of proving their bad condi- 

 tion.^^^ 



The question of the burden of proof in these cases is con- 

 sidered in § ii8, infra. 



117. Notice A stipulation that the shipper before remov- 

 ing his stock and mingling them with others should give 

 notice of his claim for damages to some officer or agent oi 

 the company is a reasonable one and vfiW be enforced.^®^ 

 fn the absence of such a stipulation, one may maintain an 

 action without giving the carrier notice of the injury or 

 offering the animal to him to be cared for.^** And such 

 notice is not necessary in the case of a claim for damages 

 for delay in transportation, but only where the animal has 

 been physically injured in the transit.^®^ Nor is it necessary 

 where the animal is dead on arrival.^^® If the extent of the 

 injury is not known by the exercise of reasonable diligence at 

 the time of removal, the shipper has a reasonable time after- 

 wards in which to give notice. ^*'^ Thus, the stipulation as 

 to notice before removal was held prima facie unreasonable 

 where horses were injured by the burning of the car, it 

 not being probable that the full amount of damage would 



=" St. Louis, A. & T. R. Co. V. Turner, i Tex. Civ. App. 625. 



^ Owen V. Louisville & N. R. Co., 87 Ky. 626; Selby v. Wilm. & W. R. 

 Co., 113 N. C. 588; Wichita & W. R. Co. v. Koch, 47 Kan. 753; Sprague 

 V. Mo. Pac. R. Co., 34 id. 347; Goggin v. Kan. Pac. R. Co., 12 id. 416; 

 Gulf, C. & S. F. R. Co. V. Wright, i Tex. Civ. App. 402. 



But see Smitha v. Louisville & N. R. Co., 86 Tenn. 198; Mo. Pac. R. 

 Co. V. Harris, 67 Tex. 166; Good v. Galveston, H. & S. A. R. Co. (Tex.), 

 II S. W. Rep. 854; Ohio & M. R. Co. v. Tabor, 98 Ky. 503. 



See, also, 6 Am. & Eng. R. R. Cas., N. S., 632 n. 



"* Evans v. Dunbar, 117 Mass. 546. 



'"' Louisville & N. R. Co. v. Bell, 13 Ky. L. Rep. 393; Kramer v. Chic, 

 M. & St. P. R. Co., loi la. 178. 



=" Kan. & A. V. R. Co. v. Ayers, 63 Ark. 331. 



"'Western R. Co. of Ala. v. Harwell, 97 Ala. 341; Louisville, N. A. 

 & C. R. Co. V. Steele, 6 Ind. App. 183; Gulf, C. & S. F. R. Co. v. Stanley, 

 89 Tex. 42; Ormsby v. Un. Pac. R. Co., 2 McCrary C. Ct. (U. S.) 48. 



