Union Pacific Railroad v. Knowlton

This is a petition in error from the district court of Lancaster county, and presents for review a jndgmént of the district court for that county, whereby the plaintiff below, defendant in error, .recovered for the .value of a cow killed by the engine of the defendant railroad company.

The collision, which was the occasion of the controversy, occurred at a point about midw ay between the limits of the city of Lincoln and the village of West Lincoln, and about three-quarters of a mile distant from each place. About half a mile south east from the point in question the defendant’s track is…