Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway Co. v. Kickler

Citations

• 51 Ill. 157

Syllabus

<p>Evidence—of sufficiency of evidence. In an action on the case to recover the value of thirty barrels of whiskey—1,264 gallons—one of the plaintiffs testified, “ that they shipped, on the 28th of December, 1866, over the Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville Railroad, to St. Louis, by way of Peoria, and consigned to H. D. Meyer & Co., St. Louis, thirty barrels—1,264 gallons— Whiskey, then worth $2.25, and twenty barrels pork, worth $20 per barrel Meld, that a fair construction of the evidence would apply this value to the market value per gallon at St. Louis, the place of its destination.</p>