State ex rel. Torrance v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 71 Kan. 613
• 81 P. 212
• 1905 Kan. LEXIS 193

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Infected Cattle — Importation—Prescribed Rules Exclusive. Cattle driven into Kansas for immediate slaughter from any point south of its south line, and carrying Southern ticks, are deemed by statute to be infected with, and capable of communicating, Texas, splenic or Spanish fever, and such animals cannot be so transported into the state in the absence of rules regulating their admission, to be prescribed by the live-stock sanitary commission.</p> <p>2. Railroads — Nuisance—Injunction by State. A railway company that maintains a lane or passageway for the driving of infected cattle from the Indian Territory into this state, under circumstances mentioned in the first paragraph of this syllabus, may be enjoined in a suit brought by the state to abate a public nuisance.</p> <p>3. - Statute Construed. Sections 7451 and 7452 of the General Statutes of 1901 construed and applied.</p>