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  "name": "Ed. V. Price & Company, Appellant, v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Ed. V. Price & Co. v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.",
  "decision_date": "1915-01-05",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 20,202",
  "first_page": "119",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "parties": [
      "Ed. V. Price & Company, Appellant, v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, Appellee."
    ],
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Smith\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Gann, Peaks & Townley, for appellant.",
      "Jeffery & Campbell, for appellee; Herbert J. Campbell, of counsel."
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    "head_matter": "Ed. V. Price & Company, Appellant, v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, Appellee.\nGen. No. 20,202.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\nCarriers, \u00a7 93 \u2014what evidence improper to show shipment. In an action against a carrier for failure to deliver a trunk, evidence of a witness that he had investigated the records of defendant and found no entries of the shipment was inadmissible as it did not answer the testimony of the plaintiff or tend to answer it, it appearing that defendant\u2019s negative .evidence referred to other dates than that on which the plaintiff shipped the trunk.\nAppeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Wiixiam E. Dever, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1914.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed January 5, 1915.\nRehearing denied January 16, 1915.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Ed. V. Price & Company, a corporation, against St. Lonis Southwestern Railway Company, a corporation, to recover the value of a trunk of samples of clothes. It appeared that J. R. Bowman was a traveling salesman for the plaintiff and that he delivered the trunk to defendant for shipment to Chicago, at Onalaska, Arkansas, and that the goods were never received by the plaintiff. A judgment was rendered for the defendant and the plaintiff appealed.\nGann, Peaks & Townley, for appellant.\nJeffery & Campbell, for appellee; Herbert J. Campbell, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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