Wood & Co. v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.

By this appeal the defendant seeks to reverse a judgment for $813.36, recovered against it by the plaintiff in the municipal court of Chicago, in an action in which the plaintiff sought to recover damages, by reason of the alleged negligence of the defendant in failing to deliver 450 cases of near beer.

The record shows that the plaintiff purchased the beer from the Pabst Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The plaintiff was located at Breckenridge, Texas. The Pabst Brewing Company shipped the beer to the plaintiff about the first of July, 1920, by the defendant railway and drew a draft…