Brown v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

The respondent sued the appellant before a justice of the peace, in the county of Linn, for damages for killing cattle, and recovered a judgment for the value thereof. On appeal to the Circuit Court of Linn county, there was a trial anew before a jury of six men, and the plaintiff had a verdict and judgment. The verdict appears to have been fully warranted by the evidence, and we find no error in the instructions which were given for the plaintiff, and in refusing those asked for by defendant. *

The defendant filed a motion for a new trial, and in arrest of judgment, for the reason, (among…