MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY v. McFADDEN

No. 318.

154 U.S. 155 (1894)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. McFADDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1894.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James Hagerman and Mr. Joseph M. Bryson, for plaintiff in error, submitted on their brief.

Mr. George Wharton Pepper, (who, on motion of Mr. George F. Edmunds, had been granted leave to appear for the purpose of arguing this case orally), for defendants in error. Mr. J. Bayard Henry was with him on his brief.


MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

Many questions were discussed at bar which we deem it unnecessary to notice, as we consider that the whole case depends upon the correctness of the judgment of the court below in sustaining the exception to the first defence in the amended answer. That defence averred that the cotton for which the bills...

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