Morgan v. Hines

HONORABLE JEREMIAH J. LYNCH, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE FARR, disqualified, delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff brought this action originally against the defendants, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company *312and Walker D. Hines, Director-General of Railroads, and sought to recover from them in his own right and as assignee of four others damages in the sum of $1,000 for negligent delay in the transportation of 52 range cattle by rail from Harlowton, Montana, to Chicago, Illinois, between the seventeenth and twenty-fourth days of November, 1919, for…