St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co. v. Morgan

Plaintiff sued to recover demurrage charges on ears of silica, gravel and sand shipped to defendants at Hayti, Mo., from Bloomfield and Pitt, Mo. Defendants answered by a general denial, and a plea that if any of the cars were not unloaded within the time allowed the delay was clue to the bunching of the cars by plaintiff or to weather conditions. Also defendants filed a counterclaim seeking to recover damages alleged to have been sustained on account of the failure of plaintiff to deliver the cars at Hayti within a reasonable time after receiving them for shipment at Bloomfield and Pitt. On…