Pennsylvania R. v. Wm. H. Muller & Co.

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

W. H. Muller & Co., Inc., the defendant in error, is a New York corporation. It was the plaintiff below. The plaintiff in error, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is a body corporate of the state whose name it bears. They will be referred to as the shipper and the railroad, respectively. The suit was originally brought in a state court of Maryland and was removed by the railroad to the court belowi The shipper sought to recover the damages it said it had suffered by the failure of the railroad seasonably to carry its wheat from Buffalo .to Baltimore. The jury gave it…