Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad v. Dill
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Lyon District Court. Action by Dill and another against the Railroad Company, to recover for damages to a stallion. Judgment for plaintiffs, at the February term, 1889, for $800 damages. The defendant Company brings the case to this court. The opinion, states the facts.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
In May, 1887, Mark Dill and David W. Dill purchased, at Cedar Falls, Iowa, three stallions, and contracted in writing with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific *211Railroad Company to transport the stallions from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Eskridge, in this state. Among these stallions was one English-Shire horse, about four years old, and weighing from 1,500 to 1,600 pounds. The contract at Cedar Falls was for a through rate, and the horses were loaded in a car there and shipped through to Eskridge in the same car, being transferred at Atchison, in…
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