Williams v. North Missouri Railroad

This suit was commenced before a justice of the peace, on a contract of affreightment made by the defendant as a common carrier. Judgment was rendered by the justice in favor of the plaintiffs, and the defendant appealed to the Circuit Court, and in that court filed a motion to dismiss the suit upon the ground that the justice had no jurisdiction over the defendant on contracts of affreightment. This motion was sustained by the Circuit Court and the suit dismissed, and the plaintiff has brought the case here by writ of error..The defendant relies on the third section of an act entitled “An…