Coyle v. Chicago & Alton Railroad
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Saline Circuit Court, Hon. Richard Field, Judge. Tlie case and facts are stated in the opinion of the court. I. Under a proper construction of the statute the liability of the defendant should have been confined to damages on account of disease communicated along the line of its road and upon its own premises.
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Appeal from Saline Circuit Court, Hon. Richard Field, Judge. Tlie case and facts are stated in the opinion of the court. I. Under a proper construction of the statute the liability of the defendant should have been confined to damages on account of disease communicated along the line of its road and upon its own premises. Rev. Stat. sects. 4858, 4859 ; Laws 1881, page 40. Along the line of transportation is the only part of section 4859, as amended, applicable to railroad companies. The true rule for construction of statutes is, to look to the whole and every part of the statute, and the…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilips, P. J.
This is an action against the defendant railroad company to recover damages, consequent upon the transportation of cattle over defendant’s railroad, from Kansas City to the city of Marshall, in this state.
The petition alleges: “That, on or about the twenty-third day of July, 1886, while in the exercise of its rights as a common carrier, the defendant shipped, transported, and brought into the said county of Saline, in the state of Missouri aforesaid, eighty-three head of Texas cattle, calves, steers, and heifers, which the de*588fendant wrongfully unloaded, at its depot in the city of Marshall…
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- Pier v. HeinrichoffenSupreme Court of Missouri · 1873
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