Union Pacific Railroad v. Hause
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to tbe First District Court for Laramie County. Tbe following statement of tbe case fully presents tbe exceptions and points argued by counsel, and was filed by tbe judge wbo delivered tbe opinion of tbe court. This was an action brought in tbe first judicial district of tbe territory of Wyoming, in tbe court bolden in and for the county of Laramie, at the March term, a.d. 1870, Hon. ¥m.
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Error to tbe First District Court for Laramie County. Tbe following statement of tbe case fully presents tbe exceptions and points argued by counsel, and was filed by tbe judge wbo delivered tbe opinion of tbe court. This was an action brought in tbe first judicial district of tbe territory of Wyoming, in tbe court bolden in and for the county of Laramie, at the March term, a.d. 1870, Hon. ¥m. T. Jones, associate justice and judge of the third judicial district of said territory, presiding and holding court in and for the first district. On the ninth day of May, A. d. 1868, the plaintiff in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Fisher, J.
We are not prepared to say that the learned judge in tlie court below erred in refusing to grant the nonsuit prayed for by the counsel for tlie defendant in that court, as there was a prima facie case made out, both by the allegations contained in plaintiff’s petition and the evidence submitted, to justify the court in proceeding to a fuller investigation than had been arrived at at the stage in evidence which had then been reached. .At least one of the allegations in the petition had been admitted, and another one had been sufficiently sustained by the evidence to…
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