Angle v. Mississippi & Missouri Railroad
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Washington District Court. Defendants are common carriers, and this action is brought for the non-delivery of certain boxes, bales and barrels of goods received by them to be transported and delivered to plaintiffs according to contracts made on the 21st of January, 1858. The goods were shipped at Muscatine, to be delivered (as is now admitted) at Iowa City.
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Appeal from Washington District Court. Defendants are common carriers, and this action is brought for the non-delivery of certain boxes, bales and barrels of goods received by them to be transported and delivered to plaintiffs according to contracts made on the 21st of January, 1858. The goods were shipped at Muscatine, to be delivered (as is now admitted) at Iowa City. They arrived at the depot in Iowa City on the 22d, and within twenty-four hours were delivered to Baton & Morse, warehousemen, at that place, where they remained until the night of the 28th of January, when they were entirely…
1Opinion of the Court
Wright, Ch. J.
—The facts out of which this controversy arises will be found somewhat in detail in 9 Iowa, 487. We shall therefore content ourselves with the statement of such additional facts as seem to be strictly necessary to the determination of the question now before us.
*557On the former hearing plaintiffs insisted, that by the terms of their contracts defendants were bound to deliver their goods at Cedar Rapids. That position is now abandoned, and the whole cause of action is based upon the failure to deliver to plaintiffs at Iowa City, and this liability is sought to be fixed upon them in…
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