Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Grimm

—The complaint in this cause was in two paragraphs. The first paragraph, omitting its formal parts, avers that on the 19th day of November, 189Y, and for a long time prior thereto, the defendant had been in the business of a common carrier in carrying and transporting passengers for hire over its railroad from the city of Brazil to a coal mine known as the Standard Block Coal Company and to return therefrom to the city of Brazil; that on said day the defendant undertook and agreed with the plaintiff, for a reasonable compensation theretofore paid by him to said defendant, safely to carry and…