Perriquez v. Missouri Pacific Ry. Co.
Decision Date | 30 April 1883 |
Citation | 78 Mo. 91 |
Parties | PERRIQUEZ v. THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant. |
Court | Missouri Supreme Court |
Appeal from Osage Circuit Court.--HON. A. J. SEAY, Judge.
AFFIRMED.
T. J. Portis and Smith & Krauthoff for appellant.
Belch & Silver for respondent.
Action for double damages for killing cow named “Doodle,” instituted before a justice of the peace in Osage county, upon the following statement:
A motion to dismiss upon the ground of the insufficiency of this statement having been overruled, after appeal to the circuit court, the defendant excepted. Upon the trial in the circuit court there was a verdict for the plaintiff, the amount of which was on motion of plaintiff doubled, and judgment rendered accordingly, and the defendant's motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment overruled, to all of which rulings the defendant excepted, and thereupon brings this case here by appeal.
The single question presented by this record is as to the sufficiency of the statement. It is objected that it does not allege that the point at which ““Doodle” is averred to have entered upon the railroad, was not within the limits of an incorporated city or town, nor that the killing was in anywise the result of or occasioned by any failure on defendant's part to construct a fence.
It is not essential to the validity of a statement under the 43rd section in question, that it should be affirmatively averred, that the point of entry on the road was not within the limits of an...
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