Rhea v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.

Ewing, C.

This was a suit to recover damages for killing stock, on the following agreed statement of facts : “That the appellant was, on the-day of June, 1881, a railroad corporation, operating a railroad through the township of Pierce, in the county of Lawrence ; that on said date the respondent was the owner of a cow of the value of fifty dollars ($50) ; that said cow came upon appellant’s railroad track at a point in said township, where the same runs through and within the corporate limits of an incorporated city, to-wit: Pierce City, and where there were no fences, and where the land was…