Wood v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Delaware District Court. Plaintiff claims damages on account of an alleged failure by defendant to receive certain property for transportation, lie alleges in his petition that on the thirteenth of October, 1879, he entered into a verbal contract with defendant, whereby it agreed to receive and ship for him two car loads of potatoes from Enfield, a station on its road, in Clayton county, to Denison, Texas, at 83 cents per 100 pounds; that, by the terms of the…
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Appeal from Delaware District Court. Plaintiff claims damages on account of an alleged failure by defendant to receive certain property for transportation, lie alleges in his petition that on the thirteenth of October, 1879, he entered into a verbal contract with defendant, whereby it agreed to receive and ship for him two car loads of potatoes from Enfield, a station on its road, in Clayton county, to Denison, Texas, at 83 cents per 100 pounds; that, by the terms of the agreement, the property was to be received by defendant, and shipped on the seventeenth of October, and that on that day…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
1. bailtootto fur-" authorttyof station agent, Plaintiff claims to have made the alleged verbal contract with defendant’s station agent at Enfield. The agent was examined as a witness, and testified that lie not agree to have cars at the station to ship the potatoes to Denison at any definite time, q'pgj.g was evidence, however, which would warrant the finding that he did agree that the necessary cars for *494the transportation of the potatoes would be at Enfield on the seventeenth of October, and that he would receive and ship them on that day. It is undisputed that on the thirteenth of October…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Whitsett v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1885
- Harrison v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1881
- Pruitt v. Hannibal & St. Joseph RailroadSupreme Court of Missouri · 1876
- Wood v. C., M. & St. P. R'y Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1882
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- Clark v. . Ulster Delaware R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1907
- Metropolitan Transfer Station, Inc. v. Design Structures, Inc.Court of Appeals of Iowa · 1982
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