Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad v. Bivens

Suit by the appellee against the appellants. The complaint alleges in substance that the appellants, on, &c., at the town of Elkhart, &c., as common carriers, received from the appellee eight thousand one hundred feet of lumber, to be transported, for a certain reasonable reward, to Chicago; that the company so carelessly and negligently conducted themselves in the premises, that, through their negligence, and that of their servants, the said property was greatly damaged, and was afterwards converted to the use of the company, and was wholly lost to the plaintiff.

Answer, in denial.

Trial,…