Union Pacific Railroad v. Kinney

In this action, in the district court of Kimball county, the plaintiffs (defendants in error) sought to recover of the Union Pacific Railway Company, as damages, the value of a gray stallion, alleged to have been struck and killed by a locomotive, on a portion of the company’s line of road in Kim-ball county, Nebraska, it being further alleged *394that the striking and killing of the horse were due to the negligent and careless manner in which an engine and train of cars were operated and handled by the employes of the company at the time of the occurrence. Issues were joined by the pleadings…