Toledo, Wabash & Western Railway Co. v. Roberts

This was an action on the case, on promises, brought to the circuit court of Sangamon county, by John G. Roberts, against the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway Company.

The declaration contains three counts, in all of which a special contract to carry is alleged. In the first, to carry fifty thousand bushels of corn from Springfield to Baltimore, at sixty cents per hundred pounds, and fifty cars per week; in the second, to carry the same quantity of corn, by the same number of cars, for a reasonable reward ; in the third, to furnish one hundred and twenty-five cars, at the rate of fiftv cars…