Wyman v. Chicago & Alton Railroad
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. cited: Coates v. United Slates Ex. Co., 45 Mo. 238; Wilcox v. Parmlee, 3 Sandf. 610; Nashua Loch Co. v. Railroad Co., 48 N. H. 339 ; Barton v. Wheeler, 49 N. H. 9 ; Bradford v. Railroad Co., 7 Rich. 201; Quinby v. Vanderbilt, 17 N. Y. 307 ; Chouteau v. Leach, 18 Pa. St. 224; Read v. St. Louis, etc., Ry. Co., 60 Mo. 199.
1Opinion of the CourtHaydeN, J.
This is an action for breach of a contract of affreightment. There are two counts in the petition, but only one need be noticed. The allegations are to the effect that the defendant, a corporation, with the Michigan Central, the Boston and Albany, and other railroad companies, whose names are given, constituted a joint association, under the name of the “ Blue Line Transit Company,” for the purpose of running cars directly through from Boston and New York to St. Louis, and transporting goods, without change of cars, over the roads of the companies forming the Blue Line Transit Company; that…
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