Horatio N. Cary vs. Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company legal documents

Collection — manuscript box: 10 - folder 1

Identifier: 1513m

Scope and content

Correspondence and documents in the case as it came before the Oneida County Supreme Court. Correspondents include the plaintiff's attorneys, Kernan & Quin (of Utica, New York), Horatio Cary, and the defendant's attorneys, Tracy, Wait & Olmstead (of New York City). Also included are transcripts of Margaret Bedell's testimony in the case.

Dates

1856-1858.

Creator

Cary, Horatio N. (Plaintiff, Person)
Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company, (Defendant, Organization)
Kernan and Quin (Firm) (Organization)
Tracy, Wait & Olmstead (Firm) (Organization)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Margaret M. Bedell, a resident of Rome, New York, brought a trunk with her when she went to visit a relative in Toledo, Ohio in 1855. On her way back from Toledo, bad weather delayed the train to Buffalo for five hours and forced her to stay in a hotel there overnight before traveling further. When she went to the railroad depot the next morning to pick up her trunk and board the next train home, she found that the depot had burned down, and the trunk was nowhere to be found. She asked to be compensated for the value of its contents, but was never paid, so she engaged Horatio Cary to sue the railroad on her behalf.