Weesen v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

This is an action for damages plaintiff alleges were caused by negligence of defendant, a common carrier, in the transportation of three carloads of fat hogs to market. Plaintiff recovered judgment in the circuit court and defendant appealed.

The material facts of the case are as follows: On June 8, 1910, plaintiff delivered the hogs to defendant at Tipton, Mo., for transportation to the National Stockyards at East St. Louis, 111. The train carrying the hogs left Tipton at nine o’clock in the evening and if nothing unusual had occurred would have arrived at the stockyards the next morning in…