Crouch v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

This action is prosecuted to enforce the common-law liability of the defendant, as a common carrier for hire, for damages alleged to have been received by a carload of twenty-one horses of the plaintiff, while in transit over its line from East St. Louis, Illinois, to Charleston, South Carolina. The answer imperfectly pleads a special contract, whereby (among other exemptions) the defendant was exempted from liability beyond its own line ; and the principal struggle in the case was, as to whether the plaintiff was bound by this contract. We have come to the conclusion that, in the state of…