Gatton v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jasper District Court. — How. D. Ryan, Judge. Action to Recover overcharges for freight shipped over defendants line of railway. Judgment on demurrer against-plaintiff, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtKinne, J.
I. The petition in this action is in two hundred and thirty-nine counts, all of which, save in dates of shipments, cars and kinds of stock shipped, and place from which shipped, are alike. The allegations are that the defendant is a railway corporation organized under the laws of the states of Iowa and Illinois? *114and engaged in the business of a common carrier, owning and operating its lines of railroad in and through said states, and that it has for more than ten years last past so owned and operated said road. It is then averred that, on live stock shipped from various points in Iowa over…
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