Madison County Board of Education v. Illinois Central Railroad

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that “[a] notation of ‘freight prepaid’ does not necessarily mean that the freight has been paid to the carrier”
• finding that to avoid liability for breach of contract, an “agent must disclose the identity of his principal at or before the time when the contractual agreement is made final.”
• “[a]s a party bound by the terms and conditions of the Bills of Lading at issue in this matter, and the invoices generated with respect thereto, [defendant] is liable for payment to” plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).