Louisville & N. R. R. v. Cunningham
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit.—Damages from loss of goods. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County; the Hon. George W. Brown, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
The appellee brought suit in assumpsit against the appellant, as a common carrier of goods, to recover her alleged damage for loss and injury to a car load of household furniture delivered by appellee to appellant at Memphis, Tennessee, for carriage to Chicago, Illinois, and recovered a verdict and judgment for $2,000.
The declaration consisted of the common counts and two special counts.
The special counts are based upon the common law duty of appellant, and do not seem to materially differ, except that in the first one it is charged that a part of the furniture became wholly lost, and in the…
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