Illinois Central Railroad v. Ashmead

Eegarding this case of more importance than usual, independent of the amount involved, on the application for a rehearing, it was deemed proper to have it again considered, that the full bench, as at present organized, might review the grounds upon which the former decision was based. Having carefully considered the evidence and legal propositions involved, we have been constrained to arrive at the same conclusions, and for the same reasons.

Some time about the last of March, 1865, appellee placed in the cars of the railroad company, at their station at Macon, somewhere near 2,800 bushels of…