Dixie Wholesale Grocery, Inc. v. Baltimore & Ohio Warehouse Co.

Plaintiff, appellee herein, The Dixie Wholesale Grocery Incorporated, brought an action against defendant, appellant herein, The Baltimore & Ohio Warehouse Company, seeking to recover damages for loss of certain goods and damage to the remainder, which goods had been stored for hire in the defendant’s warehouse. Plaintiff had approximately 8,000 eases of canned goods stored in the warehouse in 1937.

The amended petition is grounded upon Sections 8464 and 8477, General Code, which sections provide: Section 8464. “A warehouseman, in the absence of some lawful excuse provided by this chapter, is…