Miller v. Q., O. K.C.R.R. Co.

This action for damages grows out of a shipment of fat sheep which, as alleged in the petition, were intended by plaintiff for sale on the market at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago.

The transportation began on the morning of Sunday, November 26, 1916, at Bullion, Missouri, on defendant's line; and the shipment went thereon, safely and in due time, to Quincy, Illinois, the end of defendant's railroad, where the animals were turned over to the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad Company, the connecting carrier, to be by it carried on to destination. In due time, shortly after noon of the 26th,…