Bennett v. Dickinson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

A. S. Bennett, under the name of the Bennett Commission Company, was engaged in buying and shipping grain at Topeka. J. E. Rule was in the same business at Clayton, in Norton county. Bennett contracted to purchase from Rule a carload of corn to be delivered at Shady Bend via Colby. While in transit over the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway the corn was damaged, and Bennett sued the receiver of the railway company to recover the damages. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and made a number of special findings. One of…