Crowley Bros. v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.

This is an action of trespass on the case brought by the plaintiff, a wholesale dry goods corporation, with its principal place of business in the city of Detroit, to recover the value of seven sample trunks, together with the contents thereof and inter*484est thereon, from the defendant, which operated the Michigan Air Line Railway under a lease. The trunks and contents thereof belonging to the plaintiff were destroyed, on the evening of July 5, 1910, while deposited in defendant’s depot at Stockbridge, Mich., by being consumed by fire. Stockbridge is a village of 600 or 700 inhabitants, and is…