Bristor v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.

A car was loaded on defendant’s line of railway at Iroquois, S. D., in February, 1903. Household furniture and farm machinery were placed in one end on a platform about twenty inches high, and forty pigs put in under it. ■ At the other end six horses were hitched crossways, boxed piano, with bed springs above, in front of them. Two colts were loose in the space between the doors, but with the pigs, could run in where the horses were. It was billed via Hawarden to Des Moines over defendant’s road, and from there to Chariton over the C. B. & Q. line, the contract being signed by the shipper as…