Smith v. Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

This is an action to recover $1497.60 as damages sustained in the shipment of certain perishable freight, consisting of dressed turkeys, from Pleasant Hill, Missouri, to Armour & Co. in Kansas City, Kansas. Of said amount, $1437.18 was specified in the petition as having been lost by reason of negligent delay in transportation, $52.42 was for overcharge in freight and $8 was for expenses in looking after shipment, necessarily incurred and caused by the delay.

These various items thus specified in the petition aggregate the sum sued for, to-wit, $1497.60!, and are particularly set forth here…