Merchants' Despatch Co. v. Topping

Citations

• 89 Ill. 65

Syllabus

<p>Limitation—when the statute begins to run. The Statute of Limitations does not begin to run in favor of a common carrier from the delivery of goods to be carried, but from the time when a cause of action accrues to the owner. So, although goods were shipped more than five years before suit brought by the owner to recover for their loss by fire, but were destroyed within five years before suit, it was held, that the cause of action was not barred.</p>