Nielsen v. Chicago, B. & Q. R.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. Action by Niels Nielsen against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff brought an action against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company for damages caused, as he alleged in his complaint, by the failure of the company to fence its railroad in Colorado between Lafayette and Denver through an agricultural and pastoral country where cattle roamed. Pie averred that he had been employed by the company as an extra fireman for about a year, that cattle had been in the habit for a long time of going upon the defendant’s railroad to its knowledge and that about 2 o’clock in the afternoon of August 30, 1907, as he was…
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