Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Co. v. Luke

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll.

Affirming.

*561The appellee brought this suit against the appellant company to recover damages growing out of its failure to stop a shipment of cattle at Cincinnati, O. The cattle as claimed by appellee were shipped from Georgetown, Ky., to Chicago, Ill., with the privilege to the shipper of taking them off at Cincinnati, 0., through which place they would pass on the journey from Georgetown to Chicago, for the purpose of selling them, if he desired to do so.

But the railroad company shipped the cattle through from Georgetown to Chicago without stopping them in…