McLagan v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Carroll District Court. — Hon. S. M. Elwood,, J udge. Action for excessive freight charges. Judgment on directed verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Ladd, C. J. —
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*1872 *184The plaintiff bought and shipped over the defendant’s railway to Chicago* 111., and over the Baltimore & Ohio Railway from there to Cumberland, Md., two car loads of corn from Odebolt, Iowa, one from Correction-ville, and three from Carroll. The rate exacted upon delivery at Cumberland by the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company was 28 cents per 100 pounds. The plaintiff claims that, after having received a bid for 5,000 bushels of corn, he made inquiry of a bill clerk in the defendant’s freight house at Carroll concerning the rate of carriage of corn in carload lots to Cumberland,…
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- Wood v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1886
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