Farmers Bank v. St. Louis & Hannibal Railway Co.
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from Audrain Circuit Court — Now. James D. Barnett, Judge. (1) The demurrer to the evidence should have been sustained as to the St. Louis .& Hannibal Railway Company.
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Appeal from Audrain Circuit Court — Now. James D. Barnett, Judge. (1) The demurrer to the evidence should have been sustained as to the St. Louis .& Hannibal Railway Company. Kellerman v. Railway, 136 Mo. 189, 34 S. W. 41, 37 S. W. 828; Nines v. Railroad, 107 Mo. 475, 18 S. W. 26; Western Sash & Door Co. v. Railway, 177 Mo. 641, 76 S. W. 998. Particularly by reason of the lack of jurisdiction, section 997, Revised Statutes 1899, as amended by Laws 1903, p. 115, provides that suits against a railroad company shall only be commenced against it in some county where such corporation shall have or…
1Opinion of the CourtBland, P. J.
The suit is to recover loss on account of shrinkage caused by unreasonable delay in transporting over defendant’s road, two hundred and twelve head of fat cattle, delivered to it at Perry, Missouri, by the plaintiff for carriage and delivery to the National Stock Yards, at East St. Louis, Illinois, and for loss of a better market. Defendant’s road does not run to East St. Louis. It connects with the Wabash railroad (which runs into East St. Louis) at Gilmore, Missouri, and freight received by the defendant at Perry, consigned to East St. Louis, is hauled to Gilmore and there delivered to the…
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