Burger v. St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway Co.

The plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant for $145, the value of five head of cattle, alleged to have been killed through the *121negligence of the defendant. Two of the animals were killed during the night of May 28, and three in the night of May 25, 1891. The negligence, which caused the accident, is stated as follows: “The said defendant by its agents and servants did negligently and carelessly allow salt to be left uninclosed under and about its depot and warehouse building at the station of Hurricane, in the township of Burr Oak, and, by reason of such negligence and…