Smith v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co.
Nebraska Supreme Court
Appeal from the district court for Douglas county: Abraham L. Sutton, Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
McGirr, C.
The plaintiff brought this action to recover damages in the sum of $78.77, which he alleged he sustained because of unreasonable delay occasioned by the defendant in the shipment of one car-load of cattle from Tyson, Nebraska, to South Omaha, Nebraska, on January 4, 1912, and to recover an attorney’s fee in the sum of $50 in addition to such damages. The plaintiff alleged in his petition that the defendant is a railroad corporation, operating a railroad from Tyson, Nebraska, to South Omaha, Nebraska, and is .a common carrier of freight over said railroad; that on the 3d day of…
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