Adair v. Yazoo & M. v. R.

Appellant, W. T. Adair, brought this action in the circuit court of Sunflower county against appellee, Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Eailroad Co., to recover the sum of one thousand three hundred nineteen dollars and ten cents, with interest, as fire damage to thirty bales of his cotton while located on appellee’s platform at Doddsville, a station in this state on its line of railroad. The basis of liability relied on by appellant is that appellee held the thirty bales as a common carrier, and therefore an insurer, upon the theory that the cotton had been delivered by appellant to appellee for…