Illinois Central Railroad v. Brookhaven Machine Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Lincoln county. Hon. W. P. Cassedy, judge of the sixth district, presided, the Hon. J. B. Chrisman being disqualified by reason of relationship to a party in interest.
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From the circuit court of Lincoln county. Hon. W. P. Cassedy, judge of the sixth district, presided, the Hon. J. B. Chrisman being disqualified by reason of relationship to a party in interest. Replevin for certain machinery, brought by appellee against appellant in a justice court October 22, 1891. The affidavit averred that the property was of the value of $175. After the commencement of suit, plaintiff gave written notice of a claim of damages for the wrongful detention of the property amounting to $200. Plaintiff recovered judgment for the property and $50 damages. From this judgment the…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.
A short time prior to the twenty-eighth day of September A.D. 1891, one Charles Chrisman, doing business by the name and style of the Brookhaven Machine Company, bought of one Cullen, at Clinton, in the state of Iowa, an engine and other machinery, conditional upon satisfactory freight rates being secured to Brookhaven, in this state. Cullen, having secured arate with the Chicago & North-western Railway Company of seventy-five cents per hundred pounds, with five dollars for handling, communicated the facts to Chrisman, who-thereupon agreed to purchase the engine, and requested shipment at…
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