Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R. v. Lujan

The appellee Lujan recovered a judgment against the appellant before a justice of the peace of Las Animas county for the value of a horse alleged to have been killed by the cars of the defendant.

The railroad company appealed from this judgment to the county court of said county, where, upon trial de novo, plaintiff also recovered judgment.

The railroad company brings the cause here for review, assigning for error that the finding and judgment of the county court are contrary to the law and the evidence.

Two points are relied upon for a reversal of the judgment:

First. That the plaintiff was not…