Case Name: GULF, C. & S. F. RY. CO. v. SEIFRED
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1893-01-27
Citations: 54 F. 485
Docket Number: No. 151
Parties: GULF, C. & S. F. RY. CO. v. SEIFRED.
Judges: Before CALDWELL and SANBORN, Circuit Judges, and SHIRAS, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 54
Pages: 485–486

Head Matter:
GULF, C. & S. F. RY. CO. v. SEIFRED.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
January 27, 1893.)
No. 151.
In Error to the United States Court in the Indian Territory.
Affirmed.
E. D. Kenna, J. W. Terry, and C. L. Jackson, for plaintiff in error.
Before CALDWELL and SANBORN, Circuit Judges, and SHIRAS, District Judge.

Opinion:
CALDWELL, Circuit Judge.
This action was commenced by W. E. Seifred, the defendant in error, against the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Company, plaintiff in error, before a United' States commissio'ner, in the Lidian Territory, to recover the value of four head of cattle alleged to have been hilled by the negligent operation of the defendant's trains. The plaintiff recovered a judgment before the commissioner, and the railway company appealed the case to the United States court for the territory, where the case was tried de novo, and a judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and the defendant sued out this writ of error. The only error assigned, not disposed of by numerous decisions of this court, is this one: That the court refused, at the close of the whole evidence, to instruct the jury to return a verdict for the defendant. We have read the evidence very carefully, and thinh the court below rightfully refused to give the instruction prayed for. Railway Co. v. Ellis, 54 Fed. Rep. 481. The judgment of the court below is therefore affirmed.