Pennington v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District ;—heard in that court on writ of error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. James C. Martin, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Duncan
This appeal was taken for a review of the judgment of the Appellate Court for the First District reversing a judgment of the municipal court of Chicago in favor of appellant, F. C. Pennington, for the use of I. V. Edgerton, and against the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, appellee, for the sum of $424.95. Appellant’s amended statement of claim sets up two causes of action: (1) The violation by appellee of an oral agreement to ship a car of poultry, No. 739, from Imlay City, Michigan, on its train No. 90, on September 12, 1909, whereby it failed to deliver the car in time for the New York…
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