Legal Opinion
Inman v. C., M. & St. P. R.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided March 22, 1883PublishedCited by 8 opinions
Appeal from, Lyon District Court. This is an action to recover double tbe value of a horse killed by a train on defendant’s road. The cause was tried to the court, and judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff for two hundred dollars. The defendant appeals. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Day, Ch., J.
The cause was submitted to the court below upon the following agreed statement of facts:
“1st. That the defendant is a railway corporation duly organized, owning and operating a railway extending across the State of Iowa, in a westerly direction from McGregor, Iowa, to Canton, D. T., and having a station called Hartley, in O’Brien county, through which said railway runs.
“2d. That on the third day of November, 1879, at about 7.30 p. m. of said day, it being then dark, the team mentioned and described in plaintiff’s petition on file herein was hitched to a coal shed on the depot…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Welsh v. C., B. & Q. R.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1880
3Cited by8 opinions
- Ford v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1894
- Lemery v. LeonardOregon Supreme Court · 1921
- Riser v. Federal Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1929
- Tate v. Cody-Henderson Co.Alabama Court of Appeals · 1914
- Granier v. ChagnonMontana Supreme Court · 1949
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