Cohn v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

Plaintiff commenced this action in the county court of Douglas county against the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company to recover damages which he alleged he had sustained to a shipment of horses from LaBeau, South Dakota, to South Omaha, in this state.

On a trial in the county court plaintiff had a judgment, and the defendant appealed to the district court. The case was tried in that court on a petition which alleged, in substance, that the shipment of horses in question was received by the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Company, was transported by that company to Northville, in the state…