Union Pacific Railroad v. Miller

This was indebitatus assumpsit, in the Whiteside circuit court, on the common counts, brought by William Miller and William L. Patterson, as co-partners, plaintiffs, and against the Union Pacific Railroad Company, defendants. The summons was returned by the sheriff that he had duly served the writ upon the Union Pacific Railroad Company, by delivering a true copy thereof to Olon P. Baker, agent for the within named company, and at the same time made known to him its contents, by reading the same to him; and further, returns that the.president of the company was not within his county.

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