Wabash Railroad v. Thomas

This is an appeal from. a judgment of the Appellate Court for the Third District affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Vermilion county in favor of the appellee, against the appellant, for $2400 and costs of suit.

The declaration consisted of two counts substantially alike, charging the defendant, as a common carrier, with a breach of duty in failing to safely carry twenty-five head of horses from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Paris, this State; negligently failing to properly feed and water the animals while en routej carrying them by slow trains, and suffering the cars in which they were…