Hull v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

Two separate and distinct damage suits brought by different plaintiffs against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company for loss and injuries sustained in the shipments of horses and mules from Plains, Kan., to St. Louis, Mo., on February 17, 1927, were consolidated and tried together in the district court of Meade county, Kansas, and after separate verdicts were rendered for the plaintiffs by the jury and answers given by the *782jury to special questions the court on motion of ^the defendant railway company rendered judgment for…