Wheatley v. Oregon Short Line R.
Utah Supreme Court
Action by E. C. Wheatley against the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company. From a judgment of the district court affirming, except as to interest, a judgment of the justice’s court in favor of the plaintiff, defendant brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtStraup, C. J.
This is a proceeding on certiorari involving the jurisdiction of a justice’s court. Wheatley, the plaintiff, brought an action in that court against the defendant, the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, to recover damages for negligently killing live stock. In the complaint before the justice it is alleged that through the defendant’s negligence in the operation of its ears four head of plaintiff’s cattle, “of the total value of $290,” were killed “on the 11th day of December, 1915, to the damage of plaintiff in the sum of $290. Wherefore plaintiff demands judgment against, defendant for the…
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