Denver & Rio Grande Railroad v. Dunn

Appellee, plaintiff below, brought suit before a justice of the peace against appellant to recover the value of two cows claimed to have been killed in July, 1903, by the negligence of the defendant company. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, the defendant appealed to the county court, where the cause was tried de novo before the court without a jury, with the result that plaintiff again obtained a judgment in the sum of $100.00, from which defendant appeals.

The only question argued on behalf of the defendant company, or, at least, the only one necessary to determine, is the sufficiency…