Illinois Central Railroad v. Brelsford

Early in October, 1880, appellee shipped a mare and colt by the C. & N. W. R’y at Racine, Wis., in a car of appellant, to be carried via Chicago to Onarga, Ill. lie selected the car, which was confessedly suitable and proper—• loaded, tied, bedded and fed the mare in the afternoon and accompanied them to Chicago, where they arrived before daylight the next morning, apparently in good order. After giving her there, about seven o’clock a. m., two quarts of oats and three gallons of water and leaving her “a bunch” of hay, and being told that the car would he promptly sent to appellant’s yard, he…