Argenbright v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.

This is an action for damages alleged to have been caused by reason of delay and improper handling in the shipment of 184 head of hogs from Mountain View, Missouri, to Ionia, Missouri. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $400 and defendant has appealed.

The petition alleges that-on account of the negligence of the defendant the hogs contracted a disease known as swine plague from which forty-eight head, of the value of $500, died, that others depreciated in value in a like sum, and that plaintiff expended in an effort to cure the hogs the sum of $300. The…