Loeffler v. Keokuk Northern Line Packet Co.

This is an action against the defendant as a common carrier, for breach of contract to deliver certain goods. The allegation is that the defendant, having received the articles in good order at La Crosse, to be delivered to the plaintiff at St. Louis, failed and refused to deliver the same. The defendant answers that it offered the goods to the plaintiff and he refused to receive them; and that it thereupon stored the goods, and has always been willing, and now offers, to deliver the goods. There was a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant appeals.

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