Cincinnati & Chicago Air Line Railroad v. Rodgers

Suit by Rodgers against the Railroad Company to recover damages for the violation of a contract for the transportation of hay, from certain points on the line of the defendants road to Cincinnati.

The complaint contains seven paragraphs, to the first of which the court sustained a demurrer, and overruled separate demurrers to the other six.

The defendant answered in two paragraphs : 1st, general denial; 2d, a special denial of the contract, as alleged in the complaint. Reply to the second paragraph of the answer. Trial by jury; verdict for the plaintiff for §1042; motion for a new trial…