Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Lynch

This was an action of assumpsit brought by appellee to recover damages resulting to him because of the negligence of appellant in not delivering a box of fruit trees in a reasonable time after shipment. The general issue was filed to the declaration.

| On the trial it appeared that appellant received the box of trees at Vincennes, Indiana, on the 2d of November, 1881, to be delivered to appellee at West York, Illinois; that appellee had paid for the trees at Vincennes $170.67, and that he paid $3.95 freight; that appellee had before that time sold the trees to various persons in the…