Evansville & Crawfordsville R. R. v. Marsh

Replevin for a horse.

Answer in denial of. the complaint; trial by jury; verdict for plaintiff; and, over a motion for a new trial, judgment on the verdict.

The case is this :

In October, 1874, James C. Marsh shipped a horse from Vinton, Iowa, to Evansville, Indiana. The shipment was made by The Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railway, to Chicago, at the agreed rate of freight, to that point, of seventeen dollars and sixty cents, and for the sum of twenty-four dollars and sixty cents to Evansville, thus leaving seven dollars as the freight from Chicago to Evansville, while the regular…