Moyers v. Illinois Central Railroad

The appellee recovered a judgment against the appellant in the Circuit Court of Pope county for three hundred dollars, which appellant seeks to reverse. Appellee, of Golconda, Illinois, purchased of A. F. Hayes of Marissa, Illinois, a jack, and Hayes was to load the jack and cause it to he shipped to appellee, and on April 1, 1913, he loaded the animal into a car on appellant’s road at Marissa for transportation. The jack was carried to Carbondale on the 1st day of April .and from there to Beevesville, on the 2nd day of April, arriving there in the afternoon but owing to the excessive floods…