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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY vs. CIRCUIT JUDGE (Kalamazoo),
    35 M., 227.
   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.