FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY v. CAIN

No. J-69.

210 So.2d 481 (1968)

FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY, a Corporation Organized and Existing under the Laws of Florida, Appellant, v. Carrie Belle CAIN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.

May 21, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.T. Cook and Upchurch & Upchurch, St. Augustine, for appellant.

Walton & Boyles, Palatka, for appellee.


RAWLS, Judge.

The defendant, Florida East Coast Railway, has appealed from a judgment based upon a jury verdict awarding plaintiff, Mrs. Cain, $1,824.00 compensatory damages and $2,000.00 punitive damages for the death of her cows due to arsenic poisoning shortly after the Railway sprayed its right of way with a weed killer.

The physical layout of the 82,000-acre area in question must be gleaned bit by bit from the testimony of all the witnesses. The vastness...

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