Stapleton v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.

This is an action to recover for the value of goods destroyed in a fire which burned the freighthouse of the defendant at Mt. Clemens, on Monday, the 30th day of April, 1900, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The plaintiff is the surviving partner of George Norris & Co., of Detroit, manufacturers and dealers in bottled drinks. This concern had been doing business in Mt. Clemens for *188some 20 years, and in the course of business, on the 27th day of April, 1900, had shipped a quantity of goods to their agent, Patrick Bogue, at Mt. Clemens. A part of these goods reached there on Friday, April 27th,-…