Wm. Huke Rattan & Willowware Manufacturing Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

This suit was instituted before a justice of the peace in the city of St. Louis, a petition or statement being filed there which set up a claim for $95.40, the value of 1590 pounds of willow cuttings. A judgment was rendered by the justice in favor of plaintiff and the cause appealed to the circuit court, where it was tried before the court, a jury being waived.

There was evidence tending to prove that one John Lohrig, of Baltimore, Md., had sold plaintiff 6140 pounds of willow cuttings, which he shipped on the 24th of April, 1906, via the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, consigned to plaintiff at…