American Hide & Leather Co. v. Southern Railway Co.

This action was brought by the American Hide and Leather Company in assumpsit against the Southern Railway Company, in the superior court of Cook county, to recover the value of two car-loads of green hides for which bills of lading were issued to the plaintiff by the defendant at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, June 25, 1920. The bills recite that one car contained 2105 bundles and the other 1908 bundles of salted green hides, to be transported to Chicago. When the cars arrived at their destination they contained but 16 bundles of hides. The remainder of them was never received. The hides were…