Legal Opinion
Swift v. Philadelphia & R. R. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
Decided November 27, 1893PublishedCited by 7 opinions
At Law. On demurrer to declarations.
1Opinion of the Court
GROSSCUP, District Judge.
The declarations in these cases are substantially alike. The first three counts, with some variations, aver that the plaintiff is a corporation engaged in the business of shipping dressed beef and other provisions from the Union Stock Yards, in Chicago, to New York, Montreal, and other points in the eastern states and Canada; that after the 4th day of April, 1887, (the date the interstate commerce law went into effect,) and until April, 1888, the plaintiff, from time to time, delivered and the defendant accepted for transportation to such terminal points certain of…
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