Lettunich v. Southern Pacific Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. J. Cooke, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
Plaintiffs brought an action of assumpsit against the Southern Pacific Company to recover $538.99 claimed as damages suffered by them by reason of defendant’s breach of duty as a common carrier in transporting apples from California to New York City. The suit was brought December 8, 1915, and the case went to trial January 15, 1919. When the case went to trial plaintiffs by leave of court filed an additional count seeking to hold defendant liable as a warehouseman and not as a common carrier. There was a verdict and judgment in plaintiffs’ favor for the amount of their claim, to reverse which…
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