St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. McReynolds
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wilson District Court. Action brought by McReynolds against the Railway Company, ' to recover damages for killing a cow belonging to plaintiff. Trial by the court at the May Term, 1880, and judgment for the plaintiff for $30 as damages, $35 as attorney’s fee, and for costs. The defendant brings the case here. The opinion contains a sufficient statement of the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Valentine, J.:
This was an action brought before a justice of the peace under the railroad-stock-killing law of 1874. (Comp. Laws of 1879, pp.784, 785.) The action was for the value of a cow alleged to have been killed by the railway company, and for attorney’s fees and costs. The only pleading in the case filed in the justice’s court by the plaintiff below, Logan McReynolds, was a bill of particulars which did not state or show that the defendant railway company *369was either guilty of negligence, or that its road was not fenced. The defendant made no…
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