Davis v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Actio-N for recovery of a penalty, under Revisal, sec. 2632, beard by Jones, J., at Spring Term, 1907, of tbe Superior Court of "Wayne County. From a judgment for plaintiff defendant appealed. Tbe facts are sufficiently stated in tbe opinion of tbe Court.
1Opinion of the CourtOlaRic, C. J.
Tbis is an action for penalty, under Re-visal, sec. 2632, begun before a justice of tbe peace. On appeal to tbe Superior Court, by consent, tbe Court found tbe facts, from wbicb it appears tbat, on 5 May, 1906, a firm of merchants in Wilmington, N. C., shipped over defendant’s road to plaintiffs at Fremont, N.-C., a quantity of corn, less than a carload; tbat Fremont is a station, ninety-six miles from Wilmington, on defendant’s line from Wilmington to Rocky Mount; tbat Goldsboro, between Wilmington and Fre mont, is the terminus of two other railroads; that in the ear in which this corn was…
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