New England Fruit & Produce Co. v. Hines
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for the alleged failure of the defendant to properly care for a carload of tomatoes during its transportation, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County and tried to the jury before Webb, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtCurtis, J.
This is an action to recover damages arising from the dead ripe and decayed condition in which a shipment of a carload of green tomatoes arrived in Hartford on July 7th, 1919, which shipment was delivered in good order to the carrier at Fruitlands, Tennessee, on June 28th, 1919.
This was a shipment in interstate commerce. Since the amendment of June 29th, 1906, to the Interstate Commerce Act, known as the Carmack Amendment, * the rights and liabilities of the parties in actions relating to interstate shipments, in either the State or Federal courts, depend upon Acts of Congress, the bill of…
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