Ranney v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Action for Killing Domestic Animals.—Error to the Circuit Court of Henderson County; theHon. John J. Glenn, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the December term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Lacey
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The plaintiff in error brought suit before a justice of the peace against the defendant in error, to recover the amount of damages received by the former by means of the defendant in error running a locomotive attached to a train over certain cattle of the plaintiff in error at or near Shawgo’s Crossing on the defendant in error’s railroad in said county by means of which his cattle were injured and killed. The case was tried before a justice of the peace and judgment rendered in that court for the defendant in error, and upon…
2Cited by1 opinion
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