Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. Fox

This case was originally brought before a justice of the peace and then appealed to the Circuit Court, where it was tried before a jury, and a verdict and judgment awarded plaintiff for $93.

Appellee is a farmer and stockraiser, living near Philadelphia, a village on the line of appellant’s railroad, and for fifteen years had been shipping stock from there to Chicago. On the 19th of November, 1901, he shipped six carloads of cattle from Philadelphia to the Union Stock Yards at Chicago. The cattle were loaded by appellee in cars which he himself had examined and found in good condition except…