Fields v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co.

This suit originated before a justice'of the peace, and upon a trial of the same in the circuit court, upon, defendant’s appeal, judgment.was rendered in favor of plaintiff, from which defendant has appealed. The sufficiency of plaintiff’s statement of his cause of action and the action of the court in giving and refusing instructions, are questioned by the appeal.

So much of the statement as is necessary to an intelligent disposition of the question raised, is as follows:

“ Plaintiff says that on or about the 17th day of December, 1880, at the county of Daviess in the State of Missouri, and in…