Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Scott
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Superior Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. On the 11th day of October, 1865, the appellee delivered to the appellant, in Springfield, twenty-seven sacks of wool, to be transported by appellant’s railroad to Chicago. The wool was consigned to Pixley, Hall & Livermore, commission merchants, in Chicago.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph E. Gary, Judge, presiding. On the 11th day of October, 1865, the appellee delivered to the appellant, in Springfield, twenty-seven sacks of wool, to be transported by appellant’s railroad to Chicago. The wool was consigned to Pixley, Hall & Livermore, commission merchants, in Chicago. The wool reached Chicago on the 13th day of October, and on the 14th day of that month was stored by the appellant in its depot, to await the order of the consignees. On the 16th day of October, about six o’clock in the evening, a fire broke out in a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bbeese
The wool which was destroyed was placed on appellant’s cars at Springfield, on the eleventh day of October, to be carried to Chicago, a distance of about one hundred and eighty miles, ordinarily run by freight trains in ten hours. It must have reached Chicago at farthest on the twelfth, and was then suffered to remain on the track in the car until the fourteenth, when it was placed in a building used by appellants as a warehouse, in which it was consumed by fire on the evening of the sixteenth. This court said in the case of Porter v. The Chicago and Rock Island R. R. Co., 20 Ill. 407, that…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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