Adams Express Co. v. Stettaners

This was an action brought by the appellee against the Adams Express Company to recover the value of certain merchandise shipped from New York to Chicago. The case was submitted to the court upon the following agreement as to the facts, with liberty to both parties to introduce other testimony :

“It is hereby stipulated and agreed that the merchandise in controversy was ordered by plaintiffs, merchants in Chicago, Illinois, of Kutter, Luckemeyer & Co., merchants in the city of New York, in the usual course of trade, and that plaintiffs ordered said New York merchants to ship said merchandise…