DeReamer v. Pacific Express Co.

Ewing, C.

This was two suits, one against each of the defendants, the Pacific Express Company, and the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company, which were consolidated by order of the justice and tried asoné case. The accounts were for one month’s services as messenger, twenty-five dollars ; one month’s services as baggageman, twenty-five dollars. The defendant filed an off-set of one hundred and one dollars for express packages put in plaintiff’s hands and never accounted for. There was judgment before the justice for plaintiff; an appeal to the Moberly court of common pleas and, on a…