Ætna Insurance v. Illinois Central Railroad

On August 29, 1929, the Continental Illinois Bank and Trust Company of Chicago sent $21,974 in currency by registered mail from Chicago, Illinois, to the Franklin County Coal Company at Royalton, Illinois. The parcel was transported over the defendant’s line of railroad from Chicago by way of Carbondale, where it was transferred to a train running between Pinckneyville and Eldorado. From this train it was transferred at Christopher to another train running between that city and Royalton. There was but one train a day between Christopher and Royalton, and on that run there was no railway mail…