Farmers' Grain Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad

Appellant brought suit in the City Court of Mattoon to recover of appellee, as a common carrier of grain, for losses claimed to have been sustained by appellant by reason of the failure of appellee to deliver at the destination points, parts of some eighty-nine different shipments made by appellant from Dorans, Illinois. The declaration contained a separate count for each shipment. Before the case was submitted to a jury all of these counts except eighteen had been eliminated. The plea of defendant was the general issue. At the close of appellant’s case, the jury by the peremptory…