Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Olin

Plaintiff seeks by this action to recover the sum of $310.66, alleged unpaid freight charges for a shipment of apples moving from Excelsior, Wash., to defendants at Kansas City, Mo., plaintiff being a connecting and the delivering carrier.

Suit was begun by filing statement of claim in a justice court in Kaw Twp., Jackson County. On change *581of venue it was taken to the court of another justice of the peace where a trial resulted in judgment for defendants and plaintiff appealed to the circuit court. About eight months after the cause was docketed in the circuit court, defendants filed a motion…