Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Merchants' Live Stock Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Mexico; Colin Neblett, Judge. Action at law by the Merchants’ Live Stock Company against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS, District Judge.
The Merchants’ Live Stock Co. recovered a judgment against the Railway Co. as its damages to a shipment of 41 carloads of cows and calves from Avalon, N. Mex., to Kansas City, Mo. The cattle were driven in from the range 60 miles out in five days, held for a day in a nasture nearby, loaded into cars during the forenoon of October 25, 1917, left Avalon that afternoon and reached Kansas City on the morning of October 30th. Five calves and 66 cows in a total of 1,678 died in transit, or were left on the way as too weak to be reloaded, — some at Amarillo, the first unloading…
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