Miller v. Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad

This action for damages grows out of a shipment of fat sheep which, as alleged in the petition, were intended by plaintiff for sale on the market at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago.

■ The transportation began on the morning of Sunday, November 26,1916, at Bullion, Missouri, on defendant’s line; and the shipment went thereon, safely and in due time, to Quincy, Illinois, the end of defendant’s railroad, where the animals were turned over to the *465Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, the connecting carrier, to be by it carried on to destination. In due time, shortly after noon of the…