Keat v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

This action was commenced in the justice court of Douglas county to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff in the shipment of two car-loads of cat-*642tie from Bassett, Nebraska, to the stock-yards at South Ornaba, in said state. The plaintiff had judgment, and the defendant appealed to the district court.

The plaintiff, by his petition, alleged, in substance, that on the 15th day of July, 1911, he delivered two car-loads of cattle in good condition to the defendant company at Bassett, Nebraska, for shipment to South Omaha; that he instructed the defendant to unload and feed…