Seaboard Rice Milling Co. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sanford
This is an action at law brought by the Milling Cbm-pany against the Railway Company, in the District Court. for the Eastern District of Missouri, to recover the sum of $3,035.73 for damages alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of the Railway Company, the initial carrier, and its connecting carriers, in the interstate transportation of rice shipped from Arkansas to New York. The Railway Company, appearing specially, filed a plea to the jurisdiction, on the ground that neither it, nor the Milling Company was a resident or inhabitant of the district. This plea was sustained,…
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