Bush v. Northern Pacific R. R.

This action was brought by the plaintiffs and respondents against the defendant and appellant to recover of the defendant as a common carrier damages sustained upon a contract for the transportation of goods. The plaintiffs allege among other things, that on the 26th day of April, A. D. 1882, the defendant, in consideration of $40.90, agreed to carry from Minneapolis, in the State of Minnesota, to Jamestown, in the Territory of Dakota, and there deliver to the plaintiffs certain goods, consisting of about twenty-eight bushels of corn, of the value of $24.97, and three hundred and eighty-eight…