Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Co. v. Case

This was an action by the appellee against the appellant to recover damages for negligent delay in shipping appellee’s cattle from the town of Fowler to the city of Indianapolis.

So much of the contract under which the cattle were shipped as is material to the controversy here, is as follows:

“Fowler Station, December 11, 1885.

“ Memorandum of agreement made and concluded this day by and between the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway Company, of the first part, by the station agent at above-named station, and Jeffery, Herriott & Co., of the second part, witnesseth : That…