Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis R. W. Co. v. Morton

This suit was originally brought in the Yewton Circuit Court, by the appellees, against the appellant and “ The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway Company.”

The complaint, besides the usual formal averments, states the following substantial facts :

That the plaintiffs were, at the time of the grievances complained of, engaged in buying, shipping and selling all kinds of grain, under the firm name and style of R. Morton & Co., at Kentland, in Yewton county, State of Indiana; that the defendants, at the same time, “were operators of, and as common carriers for hire were engaged in…