Gilbert Bros. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

On September 22, 1908, plaintiffs purchased thirty-three year-old steers at the Union Stockyards at Chicago, 111. and shipped them over defendant’s railroad to Perlee, Iowa, where they arrived the next day.

Damages thereto are sought to be recovered in this action, the petition alleging that on the day named plaintiffs and defendant entered into a written agreement wherein defendant for a valuable consideration undertook as a common carrier to transport the cattle as above stated, said contract being made in the ttame of Lee Live Stock Commission Company as consignor on behalf of plaintiff,…