Condon v. Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad

The plaintiff shipped goods from New York by the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, directed to himself at Hancock, Michigan, and they were carried in succession by connecting carriers until they were delivered by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company to defendant at Negaunee on March 12, 1883. The goods were carried by defendant over its road to L’Anse, where they arrived March 13, 1883, and were placed in defendant’s warehouse. There they remained until March 20, 1883, when they were destroyed by an accidental fire. L’Anse was the terminus of railroad transportation.…