Shippers Service Co. v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION
McMILLEN, District Judge.
Plaintiff has sued the defendant railroad for failure to deliver goods with reasonable dispatch. Because of the railroad’s alleged negligence in failing to make delivery in time for the opening of the market in the Detroit Union Produce Terminal, plaintiff’s assignors did not sell their goods until some time later. It sues for losses allegedly caused by an intervening decline in the sale price of *1227the goods on 105 occasions. On the ba,sis of the evidence, stipulations, and the law, the court finds for the defendant.
There is no claim that defendant agreed to…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. KirbySupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad v. Peninsula Produce ExchangeSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Georgia Packing Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1947
- Condakes v. Southern Pacific Co.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1968
- Lapidus v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RailroadDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1958
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Shippers Service Company, a Partnership v. Norfolk & Western Railway Company, a CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1976