Illinois Central Railroad v. Jones
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe circuit court of, first district, Iiiuds county. Hon David M. Hiller, Judge. J ones, the appellee, was the plaintiff in the court below; the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, the appellants, were defendants there. The suit was for damages caused by delay in the delivery of freight. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, defendants appealed to the supreme court.
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From tbe circuit court of, first district, Iiiuds county. Hon David M. Hiller, Judge. J ones, the appellee, was the plaintiff in the court below; the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, the appellants, were defendants there. The suit was for damages caused by delay in the delivery of freight. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor, defendants appealed to the supreme court. Jones, the appellee, arranged to feed, and fatten for market a number of cattle at Terry, a station south of Jackson, on the main line of - the Illinois Central Railroad…
1Opinion of the Court
Whiteibld, 0. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The two points chiefly relied on for reversal are (1) that the evidence is insufficient to show any partnership arrangement between the Illinois Central Railroad and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, such as to render either liable, and (2) that no special notice was given at the time the original contract was made of the important character of the shipment — that is to say, that the hulls were to be used for fattening cattle. A careful examination of the testimony satisfies us that, within the rule announced in Railroad v. Lamkin, 78…
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