Legal Opinion · Dissent
Thigpen v. . R. R.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided September 13, 1922PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1DissentClark, C. J.
Civil action to recover damages for loss and failure to deliver a shipment of goods.
From a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff, the defendant appealed. The shipment in question, consisting of three packages of household furniture, was delivered to the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company at Franklin, Va., on 18 September, 1919, and consigned to plaintiff's late husband at Hookerton, N.C. the property of said consignee. The same has never been delivered. It was agreed that ten days was a reasonable time within which said shipment should have reached its destination. Plaintiff's husband…
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