Chicago, R. I. & G. Ry. Co. v. Gladish

The appellees sued the appellant in the justice court to recover damages on account of alleged injury to cattle in transportation. The citations served upon the railway companies suggest an amount, considering the aggregate of the items of plaintiff’s damage stated in the same, beyond the jurisdiction of the justice court. The defendants neither answered nor appeared in the justice court, and the judgment in that court was for “the sum of $200, with interest thereon at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum from - hereof,” etc. The transcript on appeal from the justice to the county court, and…