Cohn v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

— This action was brought by the plaintiffs to recover damages for the violation, by the defendant, of sections 1133 and 1134, Revised Statutes 1899, and for the triple damages allowed by section 1140 of the same statute.

The petition alleges that during all the time from March 20, 1896, to March 20, 1899, the plaintiffs were partners doing a general merchandise business at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, under the firm name and style of Cohn & Pelz; that defendant was during the same time the owner of, and controlling and operating, a line of railroad! from the city of St. Louis, in the State of…