Dorr Cattle Co. v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Court.: — How. A. H. MoVey, Judge. ' Action at law to recover damages as a result of defendant’s placing six car loads of cattle belonging to plaintiff in certain yards in the city of Des Moines, wbicb it is claimed were infected with Texas fever. Trial to a jury, verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
In the year 1902 plaintiff shipped six-car loads of cattle-from some point in Texas to Des Moines, Iowa. The defendant received -the cattle at St. Joseph, Mo., and brought them to their destination. When they arrived at the latter place, defendant took .them to what are known as the'“Union” or “Agar Stock Yards,” and there unloaded them, where they were kept for some days. It seems that these yards were infected with Texas or splenitic fever, and that on account thereof plaintiff was compelled to ship his cattle under United States government quarantine regulations to Chicago, and there sell…
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- Butler v. St. Louis Life Ins.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1876
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