Bansemer v. Toledo & Wabash Railway Co.

The appellants, who were the plaintiffs below, sued the railway company to recover the value of four cases of boots and shoes, received by the defendants at the company’s depot at Lafayette, to be carried to Marshfield, in Warren county, and there delivered to Isaac N. Julian, one of the plaintiffs, to whom they were consigned.

The complaint alleges that the freight train on which the goods were shipped was due at Marshfield at 6 o’clock p. m. of the 29th of November, 1864, at which time the consignee, who resided in Marshfield, and near the defendant’s station ■and depot at that place, was at…