Mohr v. C. & N. W. R. Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Glinton Gireidt Court. •, This is an action to recover the value of 842 bushels of barley, and the sacks containing it, transported from Wheat-land, Clinton county, to Chicago upon defendant’s cars, and not delivered to the consignee.
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Appeal from Glinton Gireidt Court. •, This is an action to recover the value of 842 bushels of barley, and the sacks containing it, transported from Wheat-land, Clinton county, to Chicago upon defendant’s cars, and not delivered to the consignee. The answer alleges that the barley was in due time temsported, reaching the depot of defendant on the 7th day of October, and on the same day, with proper dispatch, taken from the cars and deposited in defendant’s warehouse, where, on the morning of the 9th, it, with the warehouse, was consumed in the great fire occurring at that time in Chicago,…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
The cause was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, the material points of which are as follows: The receipt and transportation of .the property are admitted. It was received at Chicago, before noon of the 7th of October, 1871, on the same day unloaded from the cars and deposited in defendant’s warehouse, which with its contents was burned on the morning of the 9th, in the great fire which began on the previous evening; the barley was so lost without fault or negligence of defendant. The consignee of the property made inquiry at the proper office of defendant concerning it in the morning…
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