Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. v. Schuldt

Day, C.

On July 1, 1897, the plaintiffs shipped fifty-eight head of hogs over the defendant’s railway from Bancroft, Nebraska, to South Omaha, Nebraska. The hogs were loaded on the car about nine o’clock in the evening and when delivered to the consignee at the place of destination upon the following morning, twenty-two were .dead, and the rest were in a very had condition, on account of being overheated. The plaintiffs charge that the injury was the result of the failure of the defendant to pour water over and upon the hogs at different stations along the route, and in this particular it was…