Smith v. San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe Fourth District Court, Utah County.— Hon. J. E. Booth, Judge. Action to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by the defendant’s negligence in running a train of cars over his sheep on a public highway. From a judgment for plaintiff the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtSteaup, C. J.
This is an action .to recover damages- alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by the defendant’s negligence in running a train’ of cars over his sheep whilst he was driving them along a public highway. After alleging in his complaint that he was driving about three thousand head of sheep along the highway “just over the east boundary of the limits of American Fork City,” in Utah county, and that there was an ordinance of that city “forbidding the defendant to run or operate its trains through or within the corporate limits of the said city at a greater rate of speed than eight miles…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Reardon v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1893
- Robertson v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1884
- Williams v. Southern Pacific RailroadCalifornia Supreme Court · 1896
- St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad v. GroverSupreme Court of Kansas · 1873
- Lobdell v. HallNevada Supreme Court · 1867
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