Conley v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R.

JOHNSON, J. —

This suit was instituted in the circuit court of Boone county by W. H. Leonard, to recover damages for the breach of a contract for the transportation of a carload of horses from Unionville, Missouri, via Moulton, Iowa, to the National Stock Yards at East St. Louis, Illinois. The defendant, the Burlington Company, was the initial carrier which issued the contract, carried the horses shipped from Unionville, thereunder, to Moulton, Iowa, and there delivered them in good order to the defendant, Wabash Company, which completed the transportation to the National Stock Yards at East…