Parmelee v. Fischer
Illinois Supreme Court
This action, case, was brought to the Cook Circuit Court, and was tried at the November term, A. D. 1858, before the court and a jury, Manieres, Judge, presiding.
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This action, case, was brought to the Cook Circuit Court, and was tried at the November term, A. D. 1858, before the court and a jury, Manieres, Judge, presiding. The declaration is, in case, against the defendants as common carriers, and the original declaration contained one count against them as common carriers, and a count in trover. .The first count alleged that defendants were common carriers of goods and chattels, for hire, from the Michigan Central Railroad depot, in Chicago, to the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad depot, and that on the seventh day of June, A. D. 1856, at Chicago,…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
The objections taken by the appellants are not tenable. The instruction given on the part of the plaintiff was the law of the case. Woods v. Devin, 13 Ill. R. 746; Davis v. Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad Co., post.
As to the other objection that the pleas to the amended declaration were not answered, it is sufficient to say, that the amendment was for special damages in traveling and paying out money searching for the lost property. The character of the case was not at all changed by it, as set out in the original narr., and to that there was an issue of not guilty, under…
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