Nall v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co.

This canse was appealed from the Macon circuit court, and the record sent to the Kansas City court of appeals, where, upon motion of defendant, the cause was transferred to this court, for the alleged reason “that the issues in said cause involved a construction of the federal constitution.” Whether that be so or not, depends upon the proper construction of the pleadings in the cause.

*69The petition is as follows: “Plaintiff states and alleges, that on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1883, he owned certain goods and chattels, to-wit, one cook-stove and one box of household goods. That the…