Blankenship v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad

Action under section 1105, Revised Statutes 1899, for double damages for killing a cow at a point on the road of defendant where it was required to but bad failed to fence its railroad on either side. There was a verdict for respondent, awarding him $15 damages and on his motion this was doubled. Defendant appeals, assigning as error that the respondent had himself prevented appellant from putting up fences along the line of its road and that there was no proof that the township in which the cow was killed was an adjoining township in Dunklin county to the township in that county in which the…