Denton v. C., R. I. & P. R.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Pottawattamie Circuit Court. Action to recover the value of certain goods delivered to flie defendant at Grinnell, to be transported to Avoca. There was a trial by jury. Verdict and judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
The petition states that the defendant received for transportation to plaintiff, at Avoca, certain goods and merchandise; “that notwithstanding its duty in that behalf, defendant failed to transport, keep, and deliver to the plaintiff said goods and merchandise at said Avoca; that defendant utterly failed and refused to do so, though the same had been demanded, but bad, by its own negligence, and without fault on the part of the plaintiff, allowed the same to be destroyed by fire.”
The defendant denied all the allegations in the petition not admitted in the answer., and then averred that the…
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