Stone v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

The only ground of recovery alleged in plaintiff’s petition was the negligence of defendant in providing a defective car in which the horses were shipped, and it was alleged that six or seven head of horses shipped in said car were scratched, cut, and bruised, and in a bad, damaged, and unsalable condition and not marketable when the car arrived at its destination at East St. Louis. There was a conflict in the evidence as to the condition of the car in which the horses were shipped, and there*was evidence that, when the horses were examined in the sale barn of the consignee’s agent, the…