Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Finley
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Brown District Court. On April 21,1885, Leander Finley filed his petition against The Missouri Pacific Railway Company, and therein alleged that the said defendant is, and for more than two years last past has been, a railroad corporation duly organized and doing business in the state of Kansas; that during the whole of the year 1884, the said defendant was, ever since has been, and still is engaged in operating a railroad running from the city of Atchison, in…
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Error from Brown District Court. On April 21,1885, Leander Finley filed his petition against The Missouri Pacific Railway Company, and therein alleged that the said defendant is, and for more than two years last past has been, a railroad corporation duly organized and doing business in the state of Kansas; that during the whole of the year 1884, the said defendant was, ever since has been, and still is engaged in operating a railroad running from the city of Atchison, in Atchison county, Kansas, into and through the county of Brown, in said state, and so on to Omaha in the state of Nebraska,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Horton, C. J.:
The facts in this case as disclosed upon the trial are substantially as follows: On and prior to May 9, 1884, the Missouri Pacific Railway Company was running and operating a railroad from the city of St. Louis, Missouri, through the states of Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska; on the 9th day of May, 1884, it was carrying on its road from Missouri through Kansas to Nebraska, from fifteen to eighteen cars of Texas cattle — one hundred head — which had been shipped by the owner over the railway, who was upon the train in which they were being…
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