Larimore v. Chicago & Alton Railroad

The first cause of action alleged in the petition is that defendant received from plaintiff on the twenty-eighth of November, 1894, a shipment of *168ninety-two head of hogs to be transported from Mexico, Missouri, to Peoria, Illinois; that by reason of the negligence of defendant in unloading said hogs in the course of transportation at Jacksonville, Illinois, and placing them in infected pens, they took a contagious disease, whereby plaintiff was damaged $518.45. The second cause of action, in addition to the statements contained in the first, alleges that defendant negligently delayed the…