Muir v. Missouri

Suit to recover damages, for negligent delay in the shipment of forty-eight head of mnles from Windsor to Fulton, both in Missouri. The route of shipment over defendant’s line is from Windsor northeast to Sedalia twenty miles away, then from Sedalia east sixty miles to North Jefferson. From this last point to Fulton, a distance of twenty-five miles, the shipment went over the Chicago & Alton road, defendant having no line to Fulton.

The ordinary and usual time required to transport a shipment from Windsor to Fulton was twenty-four hours or less. The shipment in this case occupied something…