Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Meek

This is a petition in error and brings up for review a Judgment of the district court for Nuckolls county whereby the defendants in error, as plaintiffs below, were permitted to recover on account of the imputed negligence of the plaintiff in error, defendant below, as a common carrier while engaged in transporting certain cattle from Osceola, in the territory of New Mexico, to Superior, in this state, wrhereby certain of said cattle were killed and others permitted to escape. The answer contains a denial of the negligence charged and an allegation that *296for a valuable and sufficient…