Hapgood Plow Co. v. Wabash Railway Co.

—The plaintiff sued the defendant for the value of certain plows shipped by the plaintiff .over defendant’s railroad to Wellsville, Missouri, in February, 1890, and destroyed by fire in October, 1890, *373while in defendant’s warehouse at the latter place. As one of the main issues in the case is whether the defendant held the plows at the date of their destruction as a bailee for hire, or as a voluntary bailee for the plaintiff’s accommodation, we set out so much of the plaintiff’s petition as bears upon that point, the same being as follows: “That said property was received, by defendant, was…