Asher v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

This suit originated before a justice of the peace in Butler county, and was for the recovery of double damages for stock killed by defendant’s road, in August, 1877, and the trial in the circuit court to which it was *433appealed, occurred before the Revised Statutes of 1879 took effect. The statement tiled was as follows:

“ Plaintiff" states that the defendant is a corporation duly incorporated by the laws of the State; that it was the occupier of and managing a railway between the town of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and the city of Cairo, Illinois, between the 12th day of August and the 12th day of…