Koenigs v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

I. Plaintiff was in the years 1890 and 1891, the owner of a farm lying about one-half mile north and east of defendant’s station called “Earling,” in Shelby county, Iowa. The railroad track ran through said farm from northeast to southwest. On the south and east side of defendant’s line of railway, and adjoining its right of way, plaintiff had a pasture wherein the stock claimed to have been killed, was kept. There was a gate in the, company’s right of way fence, which opened from said pasture into the right of way. The petition charges that about September 15, 1890, the defendant, by one of…