Hill v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This action was brought on the ■sixteenth of October, 1891, to recover damages for killing certain horses belonging to the plaintiff. The court sustained a demurrer to the petition; the plaintiff elected to stand on his petition; thereupon the court rendered judgment for the defendant, to reverse which the plaintiff prosecutes this appeal. The petition was as follows:

“Plaintiff, I. WjHill, complaining of the defendant, the Missouri Pacific Eailway Company, states that said defendant is, and at all times hereinafter mentioned was, a railroad corporation duly organized and existing under the…