Gibbon Farmers Elevator Co. v. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Sibley county to recover $81.06 for cooperage lumber. Tbe answer was a general denial. The case was tried before Tifft, J., who made findings and ordered judgment in favor of plaintiff. From the judgment entered pursuant to the order for judgment, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHolt, J.
Plaintiff buys and ships grain from Gibbon, Minnesota, and defendant, a common carrier, operates a railway through that place to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Between August, 1916, and-June, 1917, plaintiff requested defendant to furnish it with freight cars suitable for the shipment of grain from Gibbon to other points in the, state, and defendant furnished the cars as requested with the exception that 20 of the cars were not provided with grain doors, and no lumber was furnished by defendant with which plaintiff could cooper the cars so as to hold the grain. Plaintiff thereupon procured the…
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