Richards v. Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
This is an action of assumpsit. The declaration contains three counts and the common counts. The first count states the defendant to be a common carrier, by railway, of goods, from Toledo in Ohio to Chicago in Illinois; that plaintiffs, on the 8th August, 1856, delivered to defendant a box of goods, of the value of two hundred dollars, to be carried to Chicago and to be there delivered to plaintiffs ; that for the charges to be paid thereon, defendant received the goods and…
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This is an action of assumpsit. The declaration contains three counts and the common counts. The first count states the defendant to be a common carrier, by railway, of goods, from Toledo in Ohio to Chicago in Illinois; that plaintiffs, on the 8th August, 1856, delivered to defendant a box of goods, of the value of two hundred dollars, to be carried to Chicago and to be there delivered to plaintiffs ; that for the charges to be paid thereon, defendant received the goods and promised to carry and safely deliver them at Chicago to plaintiffs; but not regarding, etc., did not take care of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWalkeb, J.
This was an action of assumpsit, brought by plaintiffs, in the Cook Circuit Court, for the recovery of the value of a box of merchandise, shipped over defendant’s road from Toledo to Chicago, -which, as the agreed facts of the parties show, was taken by defendant to the latter place, at 9 o’clock P. M., on the twelfth day of August, 1856, and was unloaded from the cars and placed in defendant’s warehouse, at noon of the 13th August, 1856, and a notice was put into the post office, between five and six o’clock P. M., that the box had arrived, consigned to plaintiffs, and was ready for…
2Cited by9 opinions
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- Bansemer v. Toledo & Wabash Railway Co.Indiana Supreme Court · 1865
- Angle v. Mississippi & Missouri RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1865
- Mohr v. C. & N. W. R. Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1875
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