Gen. No. 21,266.
(Not to he reported in full.)
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John A. Ma-honey, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1915.
Reversed and remanded.
Opinion filed October 10, 1916.
Statement of the Case.
Action by Joseph Kaufman and William Bernstein, trading as Joseph Kaufman & Company, plaintiffs, against the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company, a corporation, defendant, for damages ° for wrongful detention of a shipment consigned to the plaintiffs. To review a judgment for defendant, plain-' tiffs prosecute a writ of error.
Charles A. Butler, for plaintiffs in error; Frantklin Raber, of counsel.
No appearance for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice McGoorty
delivered the opinion of the court.
*492Abstract of the Decision.
Carriers, § 93 * —when exclusion of bill of lading as evidence erroneous. In an action by a consignee of a shipment against a carrier for wrongful detention thereof, held that refusal of the trial court to admit in evidence a bill of lading issued by the carrier, and showing that the shipment was consigned to the plaintiffs, was reversible error.