Northern Transportation Co. v. McClary

Isaac H. McClary, the appellee, on the 21st of October, 1870, purchased of N. O. Clark & Co., of Janesville, Wis., 100 barrels of flour, and paid therefor $500. Clark & Co. paid the freight on the flour to Chicago, and delivered the same to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, to be shipped on said railway to Chicago, and thence by water on the propellers of the Northern Transportation Company to Ogdensburg, N. Y., and thence by rail to Barton’s Landing, Vt., taking the following receipt:

“Chicago and Northwestern Railway Co.

“Janesville, Wis., Oct. 21, 1870.

“Received from Clark & Co.…