Baker v. Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana Railroad
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case brought in the Circuit Court by James R Baker against The Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company, The Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company, The Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad Company and the Central Ohio Railroad Company, to recover damages resulting from delay on the part of the defendants in the transportation of a lot of hams…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. E. S. Williams, Judge, presiding. This was an action on the case brought in the Circuit Court by James R Baker against The Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Company, The Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company, The Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad Company and the Central Ohio Railroad Company, to recover damages resulting from delay on the part of the defendants in the transportation of a lot of hams shipped from Chicago. The opinion of the court contains a statement of the case. Mr. Arthur W. Windett, for the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Walker
This was an action on the case brought against all of these companies for damages alleged to have occurred to eighty tierces of hams, the property of appellant, by delay in transporting the same between Chicago and Wheeling. The declaration is in the usual form for the violation of the common law duty of common carriers. It is alleged that the hams were shipped at Chicago, with a general undertaking to carry and deliver the same, in some of the counts, at Bridgeport, in Ohio, and in others at Wheeling, Virginia, within a reasonable time; and neglect and failure to so deliver the hams is…
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