UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. ADAMS

No. 4295.

362 P.2d 450 (1961)

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, a Utah Corporation, Appellant, v. Joseph Henry ADAMS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

Rehearing Denied June 23, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calvin M. Cory, Deaner, Butler & Adamson, Las Vegas, Edward C. Renwick, Malcolm Davis and M. W. Vorkink, Los Angeles, Cal., for Appellant.

G. William Coulthard John Peter Lee and Franklin N. Smith, Las Vegas, for respondent.


BADT, Chief Justice.

This appeal challenges the constitutionality of our statutes fixing the liability of railroads whose engines and cars have killed livestock. Before turning to the statutes in question and to the constitutional issues presented to this court, reference must be made to the pleadings and to the issues as presented to the district court pursuant to agreement and stipulation. By way of prolepsis it may be noted that these differ from the issues presented...

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