Nelson v. Great Northern Railway Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clarice County; TL. G. Smith, Judge. ActioN by H. H. Nelson against tbe Great Northern Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, and from an order overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial, defendant ajjpeals. As to the nature of the complaint, and the cause of action set up therein, see Hutchinson on Carriers, Secs. 738-747; City of Great Falls v. Hanks, 21 Mont. 83; Stark v. Wellman, 96 Cal. 400 ; Sanford v. Am. Dist. Tel.
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Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clarice County; TL. G. Smith, Judge. ActioN by H. H. Nelson against tbe Great Northern Railway Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, and from an order overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial, defendant ajjpeals. As to the nature of the complaint, and the cause of action set up therein, see Hutchinson on Carriers, Secs. 738-747; City of Great Falls v. Hanks, 21 Mont. 83; Stark v. Wellman, 96 Cal. 400 ; Sanford v. Am. Dist. Tel. Co., 34 N. Y. Supp’. 144; Rothschild v. Grand Trunk Ry. Co., 10 N. Y. Supp-. 36. In the court belo-w the plaintiff broadly…
1Opinion of the Court
ME. COMMISSIONER POOEMAN
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This action is brought to recover damages claimed to have been sustained by the plaintiff as a shipper of live stock over defendant’s line of railroad. The pleadings filed by the parties *306are substantially as follows, in so far as it is necessary to consider tbe sainé and the questions raised in this cáse:
The first three allegations of the complaint are to the effect: That plaintiff is a resident of Montana. That defendant is a corporation duly incorporated, > and was a.t the time operating a line of railroad from the city of St. Paul…
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