Legal Opinion
Bekins Household Shipping Co. v. Grand Trunk Railway System
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 16, 1911No. Gen. No. 15,656PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. William N. Cottrell, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1909.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
Defendant in error undertook to cause to be transported for one Arthur W. Young a quantity of household goods from Los Angeles, Cal., tó Hingham, Mass. The goods were consigned to. the defendant in error, at Chicago, to which point it paid the freight charges of the railroads transporting the same. On April 7, 1906, it delivered the goods to the plaintiff in error at Chicago and took a receipt on a printed form of defendant in error, which in part reads as follows:
“Received from Bekins Household Shipping Co., in apparent good order, the articles named helow, to be delivered in like good order…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wabash Railroad v. ThomasIllinois Supreme Court · 1906
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