Eaton v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.

This is an action to recover $500 damages for breach of contract of affreightment by which the goods delivered to defendant were lost to plaintiff.

The petition alleges that defendant is a common carrier,, and that, on December 11, 1878, defendant contxacted with, plaintiff at St. Louis, to ship to New Orleans, Louisiana, over its own track and in its own carriages, and to deliver to connecting lines of transportation by railroad, forty casks of lager beer and one box of samples, and to deliver the same within a reasonable time and in good condition to Cornibe & Duchenne, of New Orleans, the…