Nichols v. Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.

The appellant, Henry Nichols, hereinafter called the plaintiff, sued the appellee, Union Stock Yards and Transit Company, hereinafter called the defendant, in the Superior Court of Cook county, in an action of assumpsit to recover damages for loss by fire, while in the possession of the defendant as a bailee thereof, of certain cattle belonging to the plaintiff. The amended declaration of the plaintiff (who was a dealer in cattle at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago) contained four counts, each of which alleged, in substance the delivery to and receipt by the defendant in certain pens in said…