U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois November 27, 1893 (Swift v. Philadelphia & R. R. Co.)

GROSSCUP, District Judge.

The declarations in these cases are substantially alike. The first three counts, with some variations, aver that the plaintiff is a corporation engaged in the business of shipping dressed beef and other provisions from the Union Stock Yards, in Chicago, to New York, Montreal, and other points in the eastern states and Canada; that after the 4th day of April, 1887, (the