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  "name": "John M. Gallagher and Maurice Ascher, copartners, trading as Gallagher & Ascher, Appellants, v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, Appellee",
  "name_abbreviation": "Gallagher v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Co.",
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  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,607",
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    "parties": [
      "John M. Gallagher and Maurice Ascher, copartners, trading as Gallagher & Ascher, Appellants, v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, Appellee."
    ],
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      {
        "text": "Mr. Justice Dever\ndelivered the opinion of \u2019the court.\n5. Carriers, \u00a7 199* \u2014 when hill' of lading is prima facie proof of condition of goods at time of receipt hy initial carrier. Bills of lading issued by an initial carrier reciting that the goods are in apparent good order are prima facie proof of the condition of the goods at the time they were received by the initial carrier, for shipment, in an action by a consignee against a terminal carrier for breach of contract in failing to transport the goods safely.",
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      "Baker & Holder, for appellants.",
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    "head_matter": "John M. Gallagher and Maurice Ascher, copartners, trading as Gallagher & Ascher, Appellants, v. Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, Appellee.\nGen. No. 22,607.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Jacob H. Hopkins, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1917.\nReversed and judgment here.\nOpinion filed October 2, 1917.\nRehearing denied October 15, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by John M. Gallagher and Maurice Ascher, copartners, trading as Gallagher & Ascher, plaintiffs, against the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company, the terminal carrier, defendant, to recover damages due to the freezing of canned tomatoes in transit. From a judgment against them for costs, plaintiffs appeal.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Carriers, \u00a7 189 \u2014 what is liability of carrier of interstate shipment. Every carrier connected with an interstate shipment is liable for damage or loss to the property so received or transported, caused by its own negligence.\n2. Carriers, \u00a7 189* \u2014 when bill of lading of interstate shipment construed as contract of connecting carrier. The bill of lading for an interstate contract issued by an initial carrier is to be construed, under the provisions of the Carmack Amendment to the Interstate Commerce Act, as the contract of the connecting carrier.\n3. Carriers, \u00a7 197* \u2014 when action for breach of contract may be maintained against terminal carrier. An action for breach of contract for failure to properly transport and deliver goods, instead of an action in tort only, may be maintained against a terminal carrier, where goods are received by the consignee in a frozen condition, since the contract of the initial carrier is. the contract of the terminal carrier.\n4. Carriers, \u00a7 196*- \u2014 when evidence shows receipt of canned goods by terminal carrier in unfrozen condition. In an action for breach of contract by a consignee against a terminal carrier for failure to transport canned tomatoes in safety, where it appeared that ten per cent, of the goods were examined by the federal authorities at an eastern port, to which they had been shipped from a foreign country, and found to be in good condition; that goods in the cases would not freeze unless' exposed to a temperature of 6\u00b0 Fahr. or lower, and that the initial carrier delivered bills of lading which recited that the goods were in apparent good order, evidence held sufficient to sustain a finding that the goods were not frozen at the time of their receipt by the terminal carrier from an intermediate carrier.\nBaker & Holder, for appellants.\nL. L. Smith, for appellee.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vole. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly same topic and section number."
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