Legal Opinion
Great Western Railroad v. McComas
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided January 15, 1864PublishedCited by 18 opinions
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Piatt county; the Hon. David Davis, Judge, presiding. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
This was an action on the case against the Great Western Railroad Company of 1859, for negligence in not delivering certain articles with which they were intrusted as common carriers. The facts appear to be, that, on the 18th of June, 1860, H. C. McComas, the defendant in error, delivered to the railroad company certain articles of property, and received from them this receipt:
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“ Received from H. C. McComas the following articles, contents unknown, in apparent good (W. D. Kerr, Attica, Ind.) order, viz: 1 boiler, 1 smokestack, 1 dome (old), subject to the conditions and rules and…
2Cited by18 opinions
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