Nance v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

This, is a suit commenced in a justice’s court in Iron county, to recover double damages for stock killed on defendant’s road, by a train of cars. Plaintiff had judgment successively in the justice’s and in the circuit court, and defendant has appealed to this court, and the only ground upon which a reversal is urged, is that the statement filed before the justice does not contain sufficient facts to constitute a cause of action. It alleges that “defendant by its agents, engines and cars killed one white steer, the property of plaintiff, at a place on its road where the same passes through,…