Sangamon & Morgan Railroad v. Henry

This was an action of trespass on the case upon promises, brought by the appellee against the appellants as common carriers, for a failure to deliver a lot of hogs at Naples, in pursuance of their undertaking. Plea, non-assumpsit. Jury trial and verdict for the plaintiff for one hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-nine cents. The record shows that the appellants received the hogs of appellee on board of their cars at Jacksonville, on the 5th of December, 1850, about eleven o’clock in the morning, to be taken to Naples that day; that the appellee intended taking the hogs to St. Louis to…