Home Insurance v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.

The Home Insurance Company of New York brought this action against the Northern Pacific Railway Company to recover a judgment for the loss of wheat by fire while in the possession of the defendant as a common carrier. After a trial before the court without a jury, a judgment was entered against the defendant for the value of the wheat as found by the court, from which the defendant has taken this appeal. ’

The substance of the complaint is that there was delivered by the Lewiston Grain Growers, Inc., to the defendant railway company two carloads of wheat, to be carried by it to its…