Norfolk & Western R. R. v. Sutherland
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of circuit court of Bussell county, rendered March 18th, 1892, in an action of trespass on the case in assumjysit, wherein Elihu Sutherland was plaintiff and the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company was defendant. The judgment being adverse to defendant, it brought the case here on writ of error. Opinion states the ease.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action for an alleged breach of a contract of the defendant company to carry for the plaintiff fourteen car*704loads of cattle, consigned to The Plains, a station on the Virginia Midland railway, in Fauquier county. Attached to the same train by which the plaintiff’s cattle were shipped were several cars loaded with the cattle of one Finney, which were consigned to Warrenton. On the route the cattle of both shippers were unloaded, fed, and reloaded at Boanoke; and, after the train left Lynchburg, on the Midland road, it was discovered that…
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