Marler-Dalton-Gilmer Co. v. Wadesboro Clothing & Shoe Co.

Tbe-plaintiff sold a case of merchandise to the defendant for $118.18, and shipped the same to the defendant, at Wadesboro, N. C., by the Southern Eailway Company and the Seaboard' Air Line Eailway Company, taking a bill of lading therefor. The defendant represented to the ^plaintiff that it had not received the goods, and refused to pay the debt, whereupon the plaintiff sued the two railway companies and the defendant, before a magistrate in Forsyth County and caused a summons to be issued for the defendant, in the manner prescribed by the statute, to Anson County. This summons was returned…