Smith v. Kansas City & Independence Rapid Transit Railway Co. , 60 Mo. App. 591 ( 1895 )

Smith, P. J.

This action is for damages alleged to have been occasioned by defendant’s train running upon and injuring plaintiff’s cow. The evidence showed the cow had her shoulder broken which was afterwards cured to the extent that she could walk a little lame. That she was injured as a milch cow. That she was worth $50 before her injury. But there was a total lack of evidence as to what the cow was worth after the injury. There was no basis upon which a jury could arrive at an amount. It was shown that there was $5 worth of medicine used in her cure, but it is not intimated that plaintiff would remit from his judgment down to that amount. There was evidence that at some time after the injury plaintiff sold the cow “for $15 in money and a horse.” The value of the horse was offered to be shown to be $15, but this was excluded on plaintiff’s objection. So, as before stated, there is a total lack of evidence to show the amount of damage which plaintiff has suffered. Plaintiff states here that on account of an understanding had with opposite party that no objection would be taken as to the sufficiency of the evidence, he did not preserve it in full. But of this we can not of course take notice in the absence of a stipulation. The judgment will be reversed and cause remanded.

All concur.