Burnham v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co.

Epperson, C.

On its Lincoln and Denver line of road, about two miles southwest of Lincoln, the defendant maintains a station called “Burnham,” which is not an incorporated town, village or city. At this station defendant has its sheep yards; barns and pasture, where sheep in transit are unloaded and cared for. There are no general stock yards, depot buildings, elevators, corncribs or coal houses at or near this station. In the sheep yards there are at times from 20,000 to 30,000 sheep, and several hundred cars are there loaded and unloaded during.the year. This traffic averages 10 cars a day,…