Mueller Grain Co. v. Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Peoria county; the Hon. John M. Niehacts, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the April term, 1918.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carnes
This is one of four appeals by defendants in cases tried at the same term of the Peoria county Circuit Court before the same judge, presenting here, with slight exceptions, the same questions of law, with briefs of counsel substantially and in part literally the same. It is an action on the case brought by the Mueller Grain Company, the appellee, against the appellant railroad company, the initial carrier, to recover damages for loss in quality and quantity in five carloads of com shipped from Peoria, Illinois, to Baltimore, Maryland, which damage it is charged was caused by the negligence of…
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- New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad v. EstillSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
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