Ensign v. Illinois Central Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Gemmill, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1911.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Duncan
delivered the opinion of the court.
C. B. Ensign, plaintiff in error, sued the Illinois Central Railroad Company, defendant in error, and Zeigler Coal Company, to recover the sum of $700 as damages for their failure to deliver to him four cars of coal. In a trial before the court without a jury, judgment was rendered in favor of defendant in error after plaintiff in error had taken a nonsuit as to the coal company.
The facts are that said four cars of coal were consigned by the Zeigler. Coal Company, at Zeigler, Illinois, to itself at Chicago, Illinois, via the…
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