Phelps v. Great Northern Ry. Co.

This action was instituted by the plaintiffs to recover for damages alleged to have been sustained by them as shippers of certain livestock over the defendant’s line of railroad.

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff Phelps is a citizen and resident of the state of Wyoming; that plaintiff Gal-breath Cattle Company is a Montana corporation engaged in business in this state; that the defendant is a railway corporation, organized under the laws of Minnesota, and engaged as a common carrier in operating an interstate railroad extend*206ing through Montana and other states, and that it maintained a…