E. B. Conover & Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sangamon county; the Hon. Elbebt F. Smith, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1917.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
E. B. Conover & Company is a partnership engaged in Sangamon and adjoining counties in Illinois in buying and shipping grain. It brought this suit to recover damages claimed to have been sustained on three carloads of shelled corn shipped, two from Cass county, Illinois, and one from Christian county, to Baltimore, Maryland. The declaration contains a count based upon each car. In each of two counts it is averred that plaintiff delivered a car of grain to the defendant for transportation to Baltimore; that it became the duty of defendant to carry the grain within a reasonable time and to use…
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