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SOUTHERN KANSAS RAILWAY CO. v. BRISCOE

No. 869.

144 U.S. 133 (1892)

SOUTHERN KANSAS RAILWAY COMPANY v. BRISCOE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 28, 1892.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.H. Garland and Mr. H.J. May in support of the motion.

Mr. George R. Peck, Mr. A.T. Britton and Mr. A.B. Browne opposing.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

Briscoe brought suit as an inhabitant of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Arkansas, against the Southern Kansas Railway Company, to recover damages for the wrongful killing of certain live stock by one of the defendant's trains, which was tried in the Circuit Court for that district after the passage of the act of February 6, 1889...

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