Karr v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Mason County. Action by J. J. Karr against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff;, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge:
As grounds for reversal of a judgment recovered by plaintiff in assumpsit for damages occasioned by delay in the transportation of 39 cattle and 19 hogs from Mason City to Pittsburgh, a distance of 225 miles, defendant assigns insufficiency of the evidence and misdirection of the jury.
The shipment was consigned t'o commission merchants for sale at the Union Stock Yards on Monday, November 20, 1911, that being the only regular market day for cattle that week. The train carrying 'the stock was the regular weekly stock train operated by defendant between Kenova and Pittsburgh. It…
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