Lewis v. Galena & Chicago Union Railroad

This was an action of replevin, with a count ^n trover, brought in the Superior Court of Chicago, by Walter \E. Lewis against the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad compjany, and a verdict and judgment for the defendants. Without going into minute particulars of the evidence, it is sufficient to state, that one R. P. Burlingame, was a grain buyer at a station on this road called Lane, and that Lewis was a banker at the same place. That Campbell & Woodruff were commission merchants at Chicago, to whom Burlingame had been \in the practice of shipping his grain to be sold by them on at ¡count.…