Bennett v. Southern Railway Co.

This is an action instituted by a certain contract truck carrier engaged in the transportation of gasoline and kerosene in intrastate commerce from the terminal port at Wilmington, N.C. to certain points in North Carolina, against the defendant railroad companies, in which judgment is prayed as follows:

"(1) That they recover damages of the defendants on account of the injury done to them by reason of the acts and things herein set out; that the jury assess such damages in favor of the plaintiffs, and that judgment be entered against the defendants in treble the amount fixed by the verdict of…