Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad v. Roberts

This was an action brought originally before a justice of the peace of Alpine precinct, in Chaffee county, by Roberts, the appellee, against the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad Company, for the value of a, trunk and its contents, claimed to have been delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant, at the Union depot, in Denver, to be shipped to Buena Vista, in Chaffee county. Summons was issued by the justice of the peace, August 18, 1880, returnable on the 25th of the same month. On the return day the defendant appeared by an agent and *334prayed a continuance of the action until the 1st day…