Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Wright

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

L. R. Wright recovered a judgment against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company of $206.35 for losses arising from the negligent shipping of cattle over the defendant’s railroad. It was based on two causes of action, one for damage resulting from a negligent shipment in April, 1904, from Emporia to Kansas City, and another in February of the same year, between the same places.

As to the April shipment, it appears that a car-load of plaintiff’s cattle was in a wreck’, which resulted in breaking the leg of one animal and in…