American Railway Express Co. v. Peninsula Produce Exchange

This suit was brought in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County by the Peninsula. Produce Exchange, incorporated, against the American Railway Express Company, a corporation, to recover a, loss alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the failure of the defendant to transport and deliver with reasonable dispatch a carload of strawberries shipped from Queponco j in Worcester' County, Maryland, and consigned to Frost & McUab, Jersey City, New Jersey.

The plaintiff offered evidence tending to show that the berries were delivered to the defendant at Queponco. on Saturday, June…