Grieve v. Illinois Central Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buena Vista District Court. — Hon. W. B. Quarton, Judge. Action for damages on shipment of stock. Trial to jury, and verdict for the plaintiff. Tire motion of the defendant for new trial was sustained, and that for judgment on the answers to special interrogatories overruled. The defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, J.
*6611 *660The plaintiff shipped thirty-nine head of fat cattle and some hogs over the defendant's! railway, June 26,1894, from Storm Lake to Chicago: These were loaded at about 9 o’clock p. m., and reached Chicago at 5 o’clock a. m., of June 28th, but were not delivered to the consignee at the stock yards till 'eight minutes after 2 oclock p. m. The plaintiff alleged in his petition that “during .all the time from 5 o’clock a m. .to 3 o’clock p. M. of the said twenty-eighth day of June, 1894, the said cattle and hogs were kept confined in the cars within which they were shipped, and upon the tracks of…
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