Snyder v. King

This is an action for damages for a carload shipment of horses belonging to the plaintiff, moving from Chicago, 111., to Hart, Mich., under a uniform livestock contract issued February 10, 1915. Some of the horses were sick when the shipment arrived at Hart, and three died later, the plaintiff claiming that the sickness and death were due to exposure at Waverly (near Holland), Mich., where the horses broke out of a stock pen; and the plaintiff also claimed an unreasonable delay on the part of' the defendants in transporting the horses from Chicago to Hart. The car of horses arrived at…