Chicago Great Western Railway Co. v. Dunlap

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J.:

Plaintiffs brought this action against the defendant as a common carrier to recover the value of household goods shipped by them over the defendant’s line of road from Minneapolis, Minn., to-the Fifth street depot in Kansas City, Kan. The wrong alleged was that, through the negligence of the defendant, the goods were carried past their destination and into Kansas City, Mo., and there unloaded from the car and stored in defendant’s depot, where they were destroyed by fire. A judgment having been rendered for the value of the goods, the…