Baker v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the municipal court of Minneapolis to recover $200, and interest, for breach of contract for the carriage of live stock. The case was tried before Dickinson, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiffs for $150. From an order denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, but reducing the verdict to $94, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtLewis, J.
Respondents were engaged in the general stock business at Marshall, feeding, raising, and shipping cattle, horses, etc. On or about January 15, 1902, R. H. Heard, traveling freight agent of appellant company, met respondents at Marshall, and a conversation took place with reference to the prospective shipment of stock by respondents from Marshall to Chicago. The purport of this conversation, according to respondents’ testimony, was that they told Heard they were preparing to ship three or four carloads of stock to Chicago about the last óf January, and that Heard said, if they would ship the…
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