Jeffersonville, Madison, & Indianapolis R. R. v. Gent

Thomas Gent, Thomas Gaff, and James Gaff, partners as Thomas Gent & Co., complain of the Jeffersonville, Madison, and Indianapolis Railroad Company, and say that the defendant is a corporation and a common carrier of goods for hire; that the plaintiffs, at the request of defendant, caused to be delivered to defendant diverse goods, that is to say, one,hundred barrels of flour of the plaintiff’s to be carried by the defendant in and by certain cars of the defendant from Columbus to Indianapolis, in said State, and there to be delivered to the plaintiffs, for freight and reward in that behalf;…