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Show LAWSUIT 21 YEARS OLD. It I Over a Bull Killed by a Railway Train In Missouri. j Tho fntnoiia r.i of Tliomna K. BnM. tln ai-nli"l tlio Iron Mountain ft Southern riillron.l onnpany for Injury to a bull, ulilrh hna hern In all lio pourta of Mlaaourl alticc lta Inatllution ' over twenty yeura nco. came up aualn ' at Clavlon. It aa pr- H.-nlcd tn Judce Mi Klhlnney of the circuit court In the form of documentary evidence, and waa lukeu under a lvlaement by him. Twentyonn yeara and nn month ago Mr. Huhlettp obialned Juditment Ic a Juatlce of the peace court In Adnll county for $"'. The ault waa broiiKhl to recover ilamnit- a lo a young bull belonKlng to thu plaintiff, which wal truck by an eimlne of th railroad. Th railroad company look an appeal ap-peal to Ihn circuit court In 1XS.1. Mr. Hublctte took It to the, iiiprcme court of Mlaanurl, which tranaferred It to the Knnaaa City court of appeala. Thla body aent the cnie hack to th Adair county circuit, whern a new procedur waa begun to recover the amount of Judgment given by the Juatlre of th peaco court. In Ik'Ji the caao waa tranaferred from Adair r-ounly In Ht. Ixiula county and from Clayton It went to th HI. Ueila court of appeala. It waa aeut bark for relrlal on reveraul of Judgment. Judg-ment. An ciecutlon waa laaued. an Injunction Injunc-tion waa taken out to alay the etecu-tion. etecu-tion. which waa alo tnken to the court of appeala, and which waa auatalned. A new ault wna then brout-ht on the orlKlual Judgment, waa nilatrlod once and waa brought hark Into court again by JuilK M Klhlnney ginntltiR a now trial. Th matter nf granting a now trial waa alao tnken to tho higher cnttrta and auatnlned. Thla waa tho proceeding proceed-ing which broiiKlit it up to Oct. 10. Th bull haa long allien illud. and many of the wllnoMHca huie paaaed away, out of reach of tho court. Th ult waa orlglnully for f 15. Amcrl-aan Amcrl-aan l-cgal Nee a. |