Legal Opinion

Rouse v. Redinger

Court of Appeals of Kansas

Decided September 6, 1895PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Memorandum. — Error from Bourbon, district court; S. H. Allen , j udge. Action by Peter Redinger against Henry C. Rouse, as receiver of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings the case to this court. The statement of the case, as made by Johnson, P. J., is as follows : This action was commenced originally before William Margrave, a justice of the peace in the city of Fort Scott, Bourbon county, Kansas.

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Memorandum. — Error from Bourbon, district court; S. H. Allen , j udge. Action by Peter Redinger against Henry C. Rouse, as receiver of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings the case to this court. The statement of the case, as made by Johnson, P. J., is as follows : This action was commenced originally before William Margrave, a justice of the peace in the city of Fort Scott, Bourbon county, Kansas. The bill óf particulars alleges that Geo. A. Eddy and H. C. Cross had been appointed by the United States circuit court as receivers of the…

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The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnson, P. J. :

This action is brought under the statute of Kansas of 1874 entitled “An act relating to *360the killing or wounding of stock by railroads. ’ ’ (Laws of 1874, ch. 94, p. 143.)

' ‘ Section 1. Every railway company or corporation in this state, and every assignee or lessee of such company or corporation, shall be liable to pay the owner the full value of each, any, [and] every animal killed, and all damages to each and every animal wounded by the engine or cars of such railway, or in any other other manner whatever in operating such railway,…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Turner v. Cross and Eddy, ReceiversTexas Supreme Court · 1892
  2. Intoxicating-Liquor CasesSupreme Court of Kansas · 1881
  3. Sloan v. Central Iowa Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1883
  4. Union Trust Co. v. ThomasonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1881
  5. Farrell v. Union Trust Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1883

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Hunt v. ConnerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1901
  2. Rouse v. OsborneCourt of Appeals of Kansas · 1895

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