Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. Clift

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

Appellee recovered a verdict and judgment for $247.88, damages against appellant in the court below. The claim for damages grew out of the alleged violation by appellant of a contract it made with appellee to ship In 1905 over its railroad from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Baltimore, Maryland, 70 head or four car loads of cattle received of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company at *574Cincinnati, after they had been carried by the latter company over its road from Maysville,- Kentucky, to-that city. ’ The shipment was made before the enactment by…