Anderson v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

This action was brought to recover damages sustained by appellant because of the loss and injury to hogs shipped over appellee’s road from Angola, Indiana, to East Buffalo, New York. The complaint was in four paragraphs. The second was based upon the liability of the railway company as a common carrier and consequent insurer of the freight, without any reference to a special live stock contract. This paragraph was withdrawn. In the first and third paragraphs the delivery of the hogs to the appellee for shipment under a written contract is alleged, and the loss and injury of said hogs, the…