Holland v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.

Plaintiffs contracted for shipment of a carload of horses over defendant’s railway. In attempting to load them on the ears, they broke through the stock pens and ran away, receiving injury. They brought this action and recovered judgment in the circuit court.

*252It appears that plaintiffs had a verbal contract with defendant’s station agent for the shipment of the horses. According to the evidence of this agent, they were to he loaded by plaintiffs, bnt for loading purposes defendant had stock pens constructed and chutes leading therefrom to the cars standing thereat; and these horses were put…