Farming Co. v. . R. R.

The plaintiff contends that the action is to recover damages to a load of livestock, shipped by it from East St. Louis, Ill., to Rockingham, N.C. When the shipment left East St. Louis, the animals were all in sound health and good condition, but when they arrived at Rockingham many of the animals were in a sick and dying condition — gaunted — not fed or watered — in bad shape — bunged up. One died on the same day the shipment arrived in Rockingham within three hours after the delivery of the shipment by the Seaboard, three died the next day and another 8 or 10 days later. The shipment,…