Supreme Court of New Jersey November 15, 1874 (Messenger v. Pennsylvania Railroad)

*532The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bedle, J.

The first count of this declaration alleges that in consideration that the plaintiffs were large shippers of live hogs over the lines of the defendants’ railways from Pitts-burg to Jersey City, the defendants agreed to transport such stock over their railways between those termini, at the regular rates, which were fifty cents per one hundred