DUTIES OF TRAINMEN ; RATE OF SPEED ; SIGNALS. 589 



injury to a frightened animalJ" The question of speed is 

 considered further, infra. 



If the animal is on or dangerously near the track, every 

 effort should be made to frighten it away.^'^ Where there 

 is nothing to show that an animal near the track will go on 

 it, it is not necessary to stop or slacken speed ^^ or give sig- 

 nals,^® unless this is necessary to frighten such animal away.^" 

 The company is not liable unless it is in some fault with re- 

 gard to fences, etc., for killing an animal that suddenly 

 springs on the track in front of the engine; ®^ and, in general, 

 where the accident was inevitable in spite of every precaution, 

 no liability is incurred.*^ Nor need ordinary precautions 



"Newman v. Vicksburg & M. R. Co., 64 Miss. 115. 



" Kan. City, M. & B. R. Co. v. Watson, 91 Ala. 483; South & North 

 Ala. R. Co. V. Jones, 56 id. 507; Mo. Pac. R. Co. v. Gedney, 44 Kan. 329; 

 East Tenn., V. & G. R. Co. v. Burney, 85 Ga. 635; Port Royal & W. 

 C. R. Co. V. Phinizy, 83 id. 192; Warren v. Chic, M. & St. P. R. Co., 59 

 Mo. App. 367; McMaster v. Mont. Union R. Co., 12 Mont. 163; Memphis 

 & C. R. Co. V. Scott, 87 Tenn. 494. 



™ Young V. Hannibal & St. J. R. Co., 79 Mo. 336; Grant v. Same, 25 

 Mo. App. 227: Sloop V. St. Louis, I. M. & S. R. Co., 22 id. 593; Milburn 

 V. Hannibal & St. J. R. Co., 21 id. 426; New Orleans & N. R. Co. v. 

 Bourgeois, 66 Miss. 3; Yazoo & M. V. R. Co. v. Brumfield, 64 id. 637; 

 Same v. Whittington, 74 id. 410; Peoria, P. & J. R. Co. v. Champ, 75 

 111. 577; St. Louis, A. & T. H. R. Co. v. Russell, 39 111. App. 443; Robin- 

 son V. Flint & P. M. R. Co., 79 Mich. 323; Louisv. & N. R. Co. v. Bowen 

 (Ky.), 39 S. W. Rep. 31. 



" Chic, Burlington & Q. R. Co. v. Bradfield, 63 111. 220. 



'"East Tenn., V. & G. R. Co. v. Watson, 90 Ala. 41; Western R. Co. 

 V. Lazarus, 88 id. 453. 



" E. Tenn., V. & G. R. Co. v. Bayliss, 77 Ala. 429; Ala. G. S. R. Co. 

 V. Moody, 90 id. 46; Same v. Smith, 85 id. 208; Louisville & N. R. Co. 

 V. Brinckerhoff (Ala.), 24 South. Rep. 892; Ga. R. & Bkg. Co. v. Middle- 

 brooks, 91 Ga. 76; Douglas v. E. Tenn., V. & G. R. Co., 88 id. 282; 

 Wabash R. Co. v. Aarvig, 66 111. App. 146; 111. Cent. R. Co. v. Wren, 43 

 111. 77; Judd V. Wabash, St. L. & P. R. Co., 23 Mo. App. 56; Davis v. 

 Wabash R. Co., 46 id. 477; Wattson v. Phila. & T. R. Co., 7 Phila. (Pa.) 

 249; Galveston, H. & S. A. R. Co. v. Wink (Tex. Civ. App.), 31 S. W. 

 Rep. 326. 



That the presence of a runaway horse in a street is not to be foreseen, 

 see Phillips v. People's Pass. R. Co., 190 Pa. St. 222. 



" Nashville, C. & St. L. R. Co. v. Hembree, 85 Ala. 481; Mobile & G. 



