Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Reynolds
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Damis District Court. The firm of Reynolds, Semour <& Ferrell, on the 8th of January, 1870, shipped 76 head of cattle by the Kansas Pacific Railway, at Ogden, Nansas, to be transported by said railway company to State Line, near Nansas City.
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Error from Damis District Court. The firm of Reynolds, Semour <& Ferrell, on the 8th of January, 1870, shipped 76 head of cattle by the Kansas Pacific Railway, at Ogden, Nansas, to be transported by said railway company to State Line, near Nansas City. The petition alleged that said cattle were worth in all $3,420 at the place of shipment, and were to be carried by the defendant from Ogden to State Line, and there delivered to the plaintiffs for reward, within a reasonable time; that by reason of the unreasonable delay, carelessness and negligence of the defendant in transporting and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
A great many questions are presented by the record in this case, and .in some of them we find such errors as .will compel us to send the case back for another trial.
*628i. change or venne; pro tem. judges; Statutes constmod. *627I. When the case was called for trial the regular judge declined to sit as he had been of counsel in it. Plaintiff in error then *628applied to have the place of trial changed to some county where such objection did not exist. This applica- ” , ,. .. .. tion was overruled, and the election ot a mclge ? J ® <pro tem. ordered and…
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