Foster v. Cleveland, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
At Law. Action by William H. Foster and others against lire the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company t.o recover damages for breach of contract. Verdict and judgment for plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the Court
WHEELER, District Judge.
This suit is brought for not carrying the plaintiffs’ opera, troupe from Peoria, Ill., to Louisville, Ky., on time. The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs were citizens of Xew York. The answer denied this allegation. Upon the trial the plaintiffs’ evidence tended-to show that their troupe was at Peoria, on Saturday, December (5, 381)0, and was well known, and very valuable, for which they had a series of engagements, beginning Monday evening, December 8th, at Louisville, and other southern cities; that a district passenger agent of the defendant, having authority to…
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- Sheppard v. GravesSupreme Court of the United States · 1853
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