Milner v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie District Court ai Avoca. Host. A. B. Thorn ell, Judge. This is an action for damages alleged to nave oeen sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the negligence of the defendant in the shipment of two car loads of horses from Chicago, Illinois, to Sanborn in this state. There was a trial by jury, which resulted in a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRothrock, J.
This action was originally commenced in the Shelby district court by the filing of a petition and the service of an original notice upon the defendant. The defendant appeared to the action on the thirteenth day of January, 1885, and by an agreement of the parties the cause was transferred to the circuit court of Pottawattamie county, at Avoca, the issues to be made in that court, and the original papers to be sent with transcript of the record. On the fifteenth day of January, 1888, the plaintiff filed in the district court at Avoca an amended and substituted petition, and on the same day the…
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