Adams v. Colorado & Southern Railway Co.

To defendant railway company, a common carrier, plaintiff, delivered at Loveland, beef cattle to be *476delivered to him at the Union Stockyards in Denver, Colorado, which live stock, as he alleges, were, because of defendant’s negligence, injured during transit — for which a recovery in damages is sought. Defendant’s negligence,, upon which the action is based, is said to be the furnishing of unsafe and unsuitable cars for the shipment, and unreasonable delay in delivering the cattle. In the answer defendant denies some of the allegations of the complaint and, by a special defense, sets up a…