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MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Kalamazoo)

Michigan Supreme Court1876-10-25
1 McGrath 49535 M., 227

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Opinion

majority opinion

To set aside an order allowing an amendment to a declaration and to strike the amended declaration from the files.

Granted October 25, 1876.

The original declaration charged the railway company as a ■common carrier, for the loss of goods shipped over its lines and’destroyed by fire while in its depot awaiting delivery to a subsequent carrier, and the amendment sought to charge the company for negligence as warehousemen. Cause of action had become barred by the statute of limitations prior to the amendment.