Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Shumaker

Opinion by

Strang, C.:

Action for damages under the stock law of 1874. December 14, 1887, Lavina Shumaker was the owner of a farm, upon which she resided, in Miami county, Kansas. At that time the Missouri Pacific Railway Company operated a line of railroad through said county, and thi’ough and across the said farm of Lavina Shumaker. She alleges that the right-of-way of said railroad through her farm was not sufficiently fenced; and that, in the operation of its train of cars upon said railway across her farm, the defendant below, on said 14th day of December, 1887, killed two cows and injured…