Bryant v. . Stone

This is an action for the recovery of $405.25, being the value of certain lumber belonging to the plaintiff which was lost, as the plaintiff alleges, while in the possession of and through the negligence of the defendant.

The plaintiff was engaged in the lumber business and maintained a sawmill near the city of Wilmington. On 9 October, 1916, the plaintiff had forty-nine thousand feet of lumber placed on the wharf of the Camp Manufacturing Company on the Cape Fear River, which had been sold and consigned to R. R. Sizer Co. of New York, and which the plaintiff intended to ship by the Clyde Line…