Union Pacific Railroad v. Thompson

Duffie, C.

In their petition filed in the district court, Thompson and Tierney alleged that they delivered certain stock to the Union Pacific Railroad Company at Oconto, Custer county, Nebraska, for shipment to South Omaha; that the stock was delivered to the defendant company at 2 o’clock in the afternoon of March 24, 1903, and that it was careless and negligent in not transporting and delivering said stock at South Omaha by 2 o’clock in the morning of the 25th of March, 1903; that defendant carelessly and negligently kept the said stock in the cars and on the road until 6 o’clock in the…