Bailey v. Georgia Railroad

This is a suit by the Georgia Railroad against W. B. Bailey, to recover the storage charges upon a shipment of a certain lot of flour, shipped by I. Jacobs of Atlanta over the plaintiff’s railroad and consigned to the defendant at Covington, Georgia. The depot agent of the plaintiff at Covington testified: that the flour arrived at Covington on June 9; that the freight charges were promptly paid when it arrived but before the defendant had seen the flour; that after the freight charges were paid and the defendant had removed some of the flour, “he came back and said the flour was not what he…