Anderson v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

Plaintiff is the owner of five head of cattle which were killed by a train of the defendant on the Fort Robinson military reservation in Dawes county. The answer admits the killing, and that the railway through the reservation is not fenced, and pleads as a defense' that the reservation is under the exclusive jurisdiction and control of the government of the United States, and not under the control or subject to the laws of the state of Nebraska; that the United States government, exercising its jurisdiction through its duly appointed officers, has ordered and determined that the reservation…