Chicago, B. & Q. R. v. Dockery
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. Action by Thomas J. Dockery and' another against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. Theré was a judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
REED, District Judge.
This action is by the defendants in error, who will be called the plaintiffs, to recover of the Railroad Company $5,000 as liquidated damages for an alleged breach of a contract made by its predecessor to maintain a depot and stockyards or pens upon land acquired for that’purpose from the remote grantor of the plaintiffs^ with whom said contract was made. The defendant may be considered as the company with whom the agreement was made, for *222it assumed the obligations of its predecessor. The cause was tried to the court without a jury, and resulted in a judgment for the…
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