Rennie v. Schepps

Kun, J.,

According to the plaintiff’s testimony, Robert S. Schepps, a butcher, one of the defendants, purchased seven dehorned steers from Messrs. Heilbron and Loeb, cattle brokers. At the request of Schepps, the West Philadelphia Stock Yard Company, the other defendant, hauled the steers to Schepps’s slaughter-house on Orkney Street. Schepps’s store is No. 2937 North 5th Street, the slaughter-house is in the rear, on Orkney Street, a narrow street with a cartway about twelve feet wide. The steers were brought to the slaughter-house on a truck of the West Philadelphia Stock Yard Company, and…