Meek v. Union Pacific Railroad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

This is an appeal from a j udgment in plaintiff’s favor for damages alleged to have been caused by defendant’s failure to deliver a carload of cattle.

On the 31st of October, 1912, the plaintiff purchased on the maiket at Kansas City through a commission company foity head of stock cattle of the aggregate weight of 25,510 pounds, paying an average price of $5.12 per hundred. They were shipped over the defendant’s railway, consigned to the plaintiff at Idana, in Clay county. On the same day the commission company purchased for B. F. Carson, a…