Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway Co. v. Behney

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

This was an action brought before a justice of the peace of Meade county, on March 24, 1888, by E.. H. Behney and Irving Behney, copartners, against the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway Company, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiffs by reason of the neglect and failure on the part of the defendant to con*48struct and maintain cattle-guards on its line of railroad where it entered and left the fenced land of the plaintiffs. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendant in the…