Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. of Texas v. Meyer

This suit originated in a justice of the peace court but was appealed to and finally tried in the county court, where the plaintiff obtained a judgment against the defendant for $125, and the .defendant has appealed.

The cause of action was predicated upon the fact that a cow belonging to the plaintiff fell in a deep hole in the ground and broke her neck. The hole referred to was on the defendant’s right of way. About ten years prior to the trial, during an overflow of the Colorado river, the track and roadbed of the defendant’ were washed away from the approach to the bridge across the river,…