Michigan Central Railroad v. McKenna

By this appeal the defendants, McKenna and Dickey, seek to reverse a judgment for $1,483.79, recovered against them by the plaintiff company, in the municipal court of Chicago. The defendants maintained a grain elevator in the Chicago district. The plaintiff Railroad Company brought this action to recover certain demurrage charges which had accrued on shipments consigned to this elevator. To the statement of claim of the plaintiff, the defendants filed an affidavit of merits consisting of five paragraphs, as follows: (1) defendants denied that the demur-rage charges had lawfully accrued as…