Pryor v. St. Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway Co.

On the 25th day of August, 1875, plaintiff filed a statement before M. H. Lewis, a justice of thb peace, Prairie township, in Schuyler county, complaining, among other things, that defendant, in June, 1875, ran its train of ears upon one of plaintiff's cows by its carelessness and *216negligence, whereby said cow was crippled and damaged; that said crippling was done on a part of defendant’s road in said township, not fenced on the sides thereof, and passing along and through uninclosed prairie lands, without cattle guards at the crossings. Summons was issued and served, and on September 21st…