St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Bradford

Opinion of the court by

Gillette, J.:

In this case the question involved is of the jurisdiction of the court below to hear and determine it. The action was brought originally in the probate court of Custer county to recover damages in the sum of twenty dol lars for the negligent killing of ten shoats, in the operation of defendant’s line of railway. The defendant answered the petition of plaintiff, denying the material allegations thereof and for a second defense stated that it was not liable because the plaintiff had permitted his hogs to run at large and failed and refused to confine them as…