Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway Co. v. L. Starks Co.

Plaintiff brought this action in the circuit court of Kent county to recover of defendant damages resulting from destruction by fire of a car at a siding on the line of plaintiff’s railway in Osceola county, Mich.

Defendant is an Illinois corporation dealing in produce, with an office in Grand Rapids, Mich., from which city plaintiff’s railway extends north to the Straits of Mackinaw. When the car in question was burned, defendant was engaged in buying potatoes along the line of plaintiff’s road, shipping them in car load lots to various cities where an advantageous market could be found.

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