Cincinnati & Chicago Air Line Railroad v. McCool

This case was submitted to the court below on an agreed statement of facts. Finding for the plaintiff, motion for a new trial overruled, and judgment. The evidence is in the record. The defendant, at the time &c., was a common carrier from Cincinnati to Kokomo. In October, 1864, the appellant received at the former, for transportation to the latter place, a barrel of whisky, the property of the appellee, of the value of $229 92. It was transported over the line of appellant’s railroad by the regular freight train. The train arrived at Kokomo at eight o’clock in the evening, the usual and…