Johnson v. Mo. Pac. R.R. Co.

This is an action, instituted before a Justice of the Peace, to recover for damage to a carload of potatoes through freezing, alleged to have been caused by a breach of defendant's duty as a common carrier to transport and deliver the same with due care and within a reasonable time. The trial below, before the court and a jury, resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, and the defendant prosecutes the appeal.

This shipment originated in Wisconsin and was transported to St. Louis by the Chicago Eastern Illinois Railway Company, consigned to plaintiff. Plaintiff's evidence shows that…