Harman Coal Co. v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

Mr. Presiding Justice Gridley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This action was commenced in the Municipal Court of Chicago, February 3, 1910, by Harmon Coal Company, defendant in error and hereinafter called plaintiff, against the two railroad companiés, as defendants,'to recover loss and damage to a certain carload of coal in transit. On February 16, 1910, the attorney for. plaintiff served upon the attorneys for the defendants a notice that the depositions of certain witnesses upon oral interrogatories would be taken on March 7, 1910, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., before a notary public,…