Houtz v. Union Pac. R.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Second District; J, A. Howell, Judge. Action by John S. Houfcz against the Union Pacific Hail-road Company. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtStraup, J.
This is an action to recover damages for an injury to live stock, consisting of sheep', alleged to bave been occasioned through tbe negligence of tbe defendant, a common carrier, in transporting tbe sbeep from Soda Springs, Idaho, to Orna-ba, Nebraska. The ease was tried to the court, who, among other things, found that the defendant, at Schuyler, Neb.,neg*177ligently delayed the carriage of the sheep, and there negligently held and confined them on its cars for a period of seventy-two hours, and at a place where- the sheep could neither be unloaded, watered, nor fed; that during the time the…
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