Bosworth v. Chicago, M. & St. P. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeals from (lie Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. These appeals are from decrees against the appellant, O. II.
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Appeals from (lie Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. These appeals are from decrees against the appellant, O. II. Bosworth, as receiver of the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railway Company, in favor of iuterví-iiíts in the case of the Mercantile Trust Company against the Chicago, Peoria & A. Louis Railway Company, wherein the receiver was appointed, for damages (•alisal by the burning of freight ears and Ilieir contents, of which the appellant is alleged to have had possession as a common carrier, on the evening of October 28, 3894, at East St. Louis. By…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
(after making the foregoing statement). If Hie facts were simply that tinder the agreement of 1892, and in accordance with the custom which had grown up, cars from the receiver’s road were taken by the terminal association and placed upon its tracks, and permitted to remain there until the receiver, at the request of the consignee, should make out and deliver to the terminal association *76new waj bills showing a particular destination, it would perhaps be true, as contended in behalf of the interveners; that the responsibility of the receiver for the cars, with their contents, which were…
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